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Protection Profile for General Purpose Operating Systems

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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

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