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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide
SRG-APP-000065
The Mainframe Product must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.
The Mainframe Product must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.
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The Mainframe Product must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>