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I - Mission Critical Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000426-GPOS-00190

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  • The IBM z/VM TCP/IP SECURETELNETCLIENT option for telnet must be set to YES.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information can be either unintentionally or maliciously disclosed or modified during preparation for transmission, for examp...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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  • The IBM z/VM Privilege Classes C and E must be restricted to appropriate system administrators.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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  • The IBM z/VM Privilege Class F must be restricted to service representatives and system administrators only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000324-GPOS-00125

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  • The IBM z/VM ANY Privilege Class must not be listed for privilege commands.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • CA VM:Secure product VMXRPI configuration file must be restricted to authorized personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • CA VM:Secure product DASD CONFIG file must be restricted to appropriate personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • CA VM:Secure product AUTHORIZ CONFIG file must be restricted to appropriate personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • CA VM:Secure product CONFIG file must be restricted to appropriate personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuration settings are the set of parameters that can be changed in hardware, software, or firmware components of the sys...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • CA VM:Secure Product SFS configuration file must be restricted to appropriate personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • CA VM:Secure product Rules Facility must be restricted to appropriate personnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensure...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • IBM z/VM must employ a Session manager.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A session manager controls the semi-permanent interactive information interchange, also known as a dialogue, between a user a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM System administrator must develop a notification routine for account management.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information system accounts are utilized for identifying individual users or for identifying the operating system processes t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM system administrator must develop routines and processes for the proper configuration and maintenance of Software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Proper configuration management procedures for information systems provide for the proper configuration and maintenance in ac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • IBM z/VM must be protected by an external firewall that has a deny-all, allow-by-exception policy.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Firewalls protect computers from network attacks by blocking or limiting access to open network ports. Firewalls provide moni...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM System administrator must develop routines and processes for notification in the event of audit failure.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Audit processing failures include, for example, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and aud...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM system administrator must develop procedures maintaining information system operation in the event of anomalies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If anomalies are not acted upon, security functions may fail to secure the system.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;FalsePositives&g...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • IBM z/VM system administrator must develop procedures to manually control temporary, interactive, and emergency accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Proper handling of temporary, inactive, and emergency accounts require automatic notification and action rather than at the c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • IBM z/VM must have access to an audit reduction tool that allows for central data review and analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Audit reduction is a process that manipulates collected audit information and organizes such information in a summary format ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM system administrator must develop and perform a procedure to validate the correct operation of security functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly and the failure may go unnoticed...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • IBM z/VM must employ Clock synchronization software.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM systems requiring data at rest must employ IBMs DS8000 for full disk encryption.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Operating systems handling data requiring "data at rest" protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM TCP/IP NSLOOKUP statement for UFT servers must be properly configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If data origin authentication and data integrity verification are not performed, the resultant response could be forged, it m...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM TCP/IP DOMAINLOOKUP statement must be properly configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If data origin authentication and data integrity verification are not performed, the resultant response could be forged, it m...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM TCP/IP NSINTERADDR statement must be present in the TCPIP DATA configuration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If data origin authentication and data integrity verification are not performed, the resultant response could be forged, it m...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The IBM z/VM CHECKSUM statement must be included in the TCP/IP configuration file.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If data origin authentication and data integrity verification are not performed, the resultant response could be forged, it m...
    Rule Medium Severity

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