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Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST 800-171)

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  • Enable Auditing to Start Prior to the Audit Daemon in zIPL

    To ensure all processes can be audited, even those which start prior to the audit daemon, check that all boot entries in <code>/boot/loader/entries...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon in zIPL

    To improve the kernel capacity to queue all log events, even those which start prior to the audit daemon, check that all boot entries in <code>/boo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure all zIPL boot entries are BLS compliant

    Ensure that zIPL boot entries fully adheres to Boot Loader Specification (BLS) by checking that <code>/etc/zipl.conf</code> doesn't contain <code>i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure zIPL bootmap is up to date

    Make sure that <code>/boot/bootmap</code> is up to date.<br> Every time a boot entry or zIPL configuration is changed <code>/boot/bootmap</code> ne...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable page allocator poisoning in zIPL

    To enable poisoning of free pages, check that all boot entries in <code>/boot/loader/entries/*.conf</code> have <code>page_poison=1</code> included...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable SLUB/SLAB allocator poisoning in zIPL

    To enable poisoning of SLUB/SLAB objects, check that all boot entries in <code>/boot/loader/entries/*.conf</code> have <code>slub_debug=P</code> in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Syslog

    The syslog service has been the default Unix logging mechanism for many years. It has a number of downsides, including inconsistent log format, lac...
    Group
  • Ensure rsyslog is Installed

    Rsyslog is installed by default. The rsyslog package can be installed with the following command:
     $ sudo yum install rsyslog
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Network Configuration and Firewalls

    Most systems must be connected to a network of some sort, and this brings with it the substantial risk of network attack. This section discusses th...
    Group
  • firewalld

    The dynamic firewall daemon <code>firewalld</code> provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network “zones” to assign a level of tr...
    Group

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