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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000066-GPOS-00034
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Expired IBM z/OS digital certificates must not be used.
<VulnDiscussion>Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate n...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000104-GPOS-00051
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
IBM z/OS must have Certificate Name Filtering implemented with appropriate authorization and documentation.
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS Security control ACIDs must be limited to the administrative authorities authorized and that require these privileges to perform their job duties.
<VulnDiscussion>The use of security policy filters provides protection for the confidentiality of data by restricting the flow of data. A cru...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The number of CA-TSS ACIDs possessing the tape Bypass Label Processing (BLP) privilege must be limited.
<VulnDiscussion>The use of security policy filters provides protection for the confidentiality of data by restricting the flow of data. A cru...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000001-GPOS-00001
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS MODE Control Option must be set to FAIL.
<VulnDiscussion>Enterprise environments make account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions ad...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS NPWRTHRESH Control Option must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS NPPTHRESH Control Option must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS PTHRESH Control Option must be set to 2.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS NPPTHRESH Control Option must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
IBM z/OS must limit access for SMF collection files (i.e., SYS1.MANx) to appropriate users and/or batch jobs that perform SMF dump processing.
<VulnDiscussion>SMF data collection is the system activity journaling facility of the z/OS system. Unauthorized access could result in the co...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000063-GPOS-00032
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
IBM z/OS SYS1.PARMLIB must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel ma...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000067-GPOS-00035
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
IBM z/OS for PKI-based authentication must use ICSF or the ESM to store keys.
<VulnDiscussion>If the private key is discovered, an attacker can use the key to authenticate as an authorized user and gain access to the ne...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000069-GPOS-00037
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS NEWPHRASE and PPSCHAR Control Options must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000071-GPOS-00039
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS NEWPW control options must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>If the private key is stolen, this will lead to the compromise of the authentication and nonrepudiation gained through PKI be...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
IBM z/OS must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to protect passwords in the security database.
<VulnDiscussion>Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000076-GPOS-00044
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS PWEXP Control Option must be set to 60.
<VulnDiscussion>Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed periodically. If the ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000076-GPOS-00044
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS PPEXP Control Option must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed periodically. If the ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS PWHIST Control Option must be set to 10 or greater.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The CA-TSS PPHIST Control Option must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000078-GPOS-00046
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The IBM z/OS operating system must enforce a minimum eight character password length.
<VulnDiscussion>The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is comprom...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS access to SYS1.LINKLIB must be properly protected.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DOD-ap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.SVCLIB to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.IMAGELIB to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS must limit Write or greater access to SYS1.LPALIB to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
CA-TSS must limit WRITE or greater access to all APF-authorized libraries to system programmers only.
<VulnDiscussion>To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...Rule High Severity
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