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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000179

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  • The Mainframe Product must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000180

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  • The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Lack of authentication and identification enables non-organizational users to gain access to the application or possibly othe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000181

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly faci...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000206

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  • The Mainframe Product must identify prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within applications are based on the potential for the code to cause damage...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000207

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  • The Mainframe Product must block, quarantine, and/or alert system administrators when prohibited mobile code is identified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000209

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000210

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in, at a minimum, office applications, browsers, email clients, mobile code run-time environments, and mobile agent systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mobile code can cause damage to the system. It can execute without explicit action from, or notification to, a user. Preven...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000211

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  • The Mainframe Product must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Application management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access. All...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000225

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  • The Mainframe Product must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000226

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  • In the event of application failure, Mainframe Products must preserve any information necessary to determine the cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with the least disruption to mission processes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Fa...
    Rule Medium Severity

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