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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide


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Date Finding Count (184)
2017-06-22 CAT I (High): 0 CAT II (Med): 184 CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Requirements Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via e-mail to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC III - Administrative Public)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-68513 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to non-privileged accounts.
V-68511 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.
V-68145 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators when accounts are created.
V-68331 Medium The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
V-68307 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement organization-defined automated security responses if baseline configurations are changed in an unauthorized manner.
V-68123 Medium The Mainframe Product must associate types of security attributes having security attribute values as defined in site security plan with information in storage.
V-68121 Medium The Mainframe Product must display an explicit logoff message to users indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions.
V-68249 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of the events.
V-68127 Medium The Mainframe Product must use an external security manager for all account management functions.
V-68147 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators when accounts are modified.
V-68125 Medium The Mainframe Product must associate types of security attributes having security attribute values as defined in site security plan with information in process.
V-68445 Medium The Mainframe Product must identify prohibited mobile code.
V-68457 Medium The Mainframe Product must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality.
V-68243 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.
V-68129 Medium The Mainframe Product must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group.
V-68241 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-68453 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent the automatic execution of mobile code in, at a minimum, office applications, browsers, email clients, mobile code run-time environments, and mobile agent systems.
V-68247 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
V-68451 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code.
V-68245 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
V-68329 Medium The Mainframe Product must require devices to reauthenticate when circumstances or situations require reauthentication as defined in site security plan.
V-68321 Medium The Mainframe Product must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs.
V-68325 Medium The Mainframe Product must be configured to disable non-essential capabilities.
V-68327 Medium The Mainframe Product must require users to reauthenticate when circumstances or situations require reauthentication as defined in site security plan.
V-68131 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically remove or disable temporary user accounts after 72 hours.
V-68133 Medium The Mainframe Product must be configured such that emergency accounts are never automatically removed or disabled.
V-68255 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide centralized management and configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all application components.
V-68135 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically disable accounts after 35 days of account inactivity.
V-68137 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account creation.
V-68139 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account modification.
V-68447 Medium The Mainframe Product must block, quarantine, and/or alert system administrators when prohibited mobile code is identified.
V-68339 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.
V-68333 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts.
V-68239 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for authorized users to remotely view/hear, in real time, all content related to an established user session from a component separate from the Mainframe Product being monitored.
V-68237 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for authorized users to capture, record, and log all content related to a user session.
V-68235 Medium The Mainframe Product must initiate session auditing upon startup.
V-68233 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for authorized users to select a user session to capture/record or view/hear.
V-68231 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all kernel module load, unload, and restart events, and for all program initiations.
V-68175 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.
V-68177 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.
V-68459 Medium The Mainframe Product must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
V-68171 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent software as identified in the site security plan from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.
V-68479 Medium The Mainframe Product must reveal full-text detail error messages only to system programmers and/or security administrators.
V-68109 Medium The Mainframe Product must conceal, via the session lock, information previously visible on the display with a publicly viewable image.
V-68471 Medium The Mainframe Product must maintain a separate execution domain for each executing process.
V-68473 Medium The Mainframe Product must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
V-68173 Medium The Mainframe Product must audit the execution of privileged functions.
V-68475 Medium The Mainframe Product must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives when invalid inputs are received.
V-68455 Medium The Mainframe Product must prompt the user for action prior to executing mobile code.
V-68477 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.
V-68185 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for security administrators to change the auditing to be performed on all application components based on all selectable event criteria within time thresholds defined in site security plan.
V-68187 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all application components.
V-68181 Medium For Mainframe Products providing audit record aggregation, the Mainframe Product must compile audit records from mainframe components into a system-wide audit trail that is time-correlated with a tolerance for the relationship between time stamps of individual records in the audit trail in accordance with the sites security plan.
V-68229 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.
V-68183 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for system programmers to change the auditing to be performed on all application components based on all selectable event criteria within time thresholds defined in the site security plan.
V-68225 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.
V-68227 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all direct access to the information system.
V-68189 Medium The Mainframe Product must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.
V-68221 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.
V-68223 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur.
V-68467 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure of all information not cleared for public release at rest on system components outside of organization facilities.
V-68465 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized modification of all information not cleared for public release at rest on system components outside of organization facilities.
V-68463 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
V-68461 Medium In the event of application failure, Mainframe Products must preserve any information necessary to determine the cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with the least disruption to mission processes.
V-68469 Medium The Mainframe Product must isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions.
V-68119 Medium Mainframe Products requiring user access authentication must provide a logoff capability for a user-initiated communication session.
V-68113 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for users to directly initiate a session lock.
V-68111 Medium The Mainframe Product must initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity.
V-68117 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically terminate a user session after conditions, as defined in site security plan, are met or trigger events requiring session disconnect.
V-68115 Medium The Mainframe Product must retain the session lock until the user reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures.
V-68219 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access.
V-68193 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.
V-68191 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.
V-68197 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
V-68195 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security levels occur.
V-68211 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security levels occur.
V-68213 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.
V-68199 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.
V-68215 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
V-68217 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.
V-68291 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from any type of unauthorized read access.
V-68167 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the system based on site security plan information flow control policies.
V-68293 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from unauthorized modification.
V-68295 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.
V-68297 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.
V-68299 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.
V-68165 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce approved authorizations for system programmer access to sensitive information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-68413 Medium The Mainframe Product must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies.
V-68411 Medium The Mainframe Product must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies.
V-68417 Medium The Mainframe Product must conform to FICAM-issued profiles.
V-68415 Medium The Mainframe Product must accept FICAM-approved third-party credentials.
V-68163 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.
V-68419 Medium Mainframe Products scanning for malicious code must scan all media used for system maintenance prior to use.
V-68207 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
V-68205 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security levels occur.
V-68369 Medium The Mainframe Product must verify users are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.
V-68161 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce approved authorizations for security administrator access to sensitive information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-68201 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.
V-68257 Medium The mainframe product must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
V-68209 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges occur.
V-68499 Medium The Mainframe Product must either shut down, restart, and/or notify the appropriate personnel when anomalies in the operation of the security functions as defined in site security plan are discovered.
V-68169 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
V-68493 Medium The Mainframe Product performing organization-defined security functions must verify correct operation of security functions.
V-68251 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records containing information to establish the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.
V-68491 Medium The Mainframe Product must configure malicious code protection mechanisms to perform periodic scans of the information system every seven days.
V-68497 Medium The Mainframe product must notify the system programmer and security administrator of failed security verification tests.
V-68495 Medium The Mainframe Product must perform verification of the correct operation of security functions upon system startup and/or restart; upon command by a user with privileged access; and/or every 30 days.
V-68253 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands or the individual identities of group account users.
V-68289 Medium The Mainframe Products must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.
V-68287 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.
V-68305 Medium The Mainframe product must prohibit user installation of software without explicit privileged status.
V-68285 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.
V-68283 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.
V-68281 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
V-68401 Medium The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key.
V-68403 Medium The Mainframe Product must map the authenticated identity to the individual user or group account for PKI-based authentication.
V-68405 Medium The Mainframe Product must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.
V-68407 Medium The Mainframe Product must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.
V-68409 Medium The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).
V-68273 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
V-68271 Medium The Mainframe Products must provide the capability to filter audit records for events of interest as defined in site security plan.
V-68277 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.
V-68275 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
V-68373 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
V-68279 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
V-68371 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
V-68377 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
V-68375 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.
V-68489 Medium The Mainframe Product must update malicious code protection mechanisms whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures.
V-68179 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect against an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual) falsely denying having performed actions defined in the site security plan to be covered by non-repudiation.
V-68481 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement security safeguards to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.
V-68483 Medium The Mainframe Product must remove all upgraded/replaced software components that are no longer required for operation after updated versions have been installed.
V-68485 Medium The Mainframe Product must install security-relevant software updates within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVMs, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-68487 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms.
V-68439 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
V-68435 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to provision digital signatures in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
V-68437 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to generate and validate cryptographic hashes in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
V-68431 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement privileged access authorization to all information systems and infrastructure components for selected vulnerability scanning activities as defined in the site security plan.
V-68433 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
V-68261 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate warning to the system programmer and security administrator (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.
V-68263 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate real-time alert to the operations staff, system programmers, and/or security administrators, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.
V-68265 Medium The Mainframe Product must alert the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.
V-68267 Medium The Mainframe Product must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).
V-68269 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.
V-68149 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators for account disabling actions.
V-68309 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to application configuration.
V-68141 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account disabling actions.
V-68143 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account removal actions.
V-68303 Medium The Mainframe Product must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit tools.
V-68301 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.
V-68387 Medium The Mainframe Product must transmit only cryptographically protected passwords.
V-68385 Medium The Mainframe Product must store only cryptographically protected passwords.
V-68383 Medium The Mainframe Product must require the change of at least 8 of the total number of characters when passwords are changed.
V-68381 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.
V-68389 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.
V-68429 Medium The Mainframe Product must terminate all sessions and network connections when nonlocal maintenance is completed.
V-68423 Medium Mainframe Products must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications.
V-68421 Medium Mainframe Products must audit nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions audit events as defined in site security plan.
V-68427 Medium Mainframe Products must verify remote disconnection at the termination of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.
V-68425 Medium Mainframe Products must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications.
V-68509 Medium The Mainframe Product, upon detection of a potential integrity violation, must initiate one or more of the following actions: generate an audit record, alert the current user, alert personnel or roles as defined in the site security plan, and/or perform other actions as defined in site security plan.
V-68157 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators of account enabling actions.
V-68335 Medium The Mainframe Product must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
V-68259 Medium The Mainframe Product must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.
V-68153 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account enabling actions.
V-68151 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators for account removal actions.
V-68501 Medium The Mainframe product must perform an integrity check of all software from vendors/sources that provide cryptographic mechanisms to enable the validation of code authenticity and integrity at startup, at transitional states as defined in site security plan or security-relevant events, or annually.
V-68503 Medium The Mainframe Product must perform an integrity check of information as defined in site security plan at startup, at transitional states as defined in site security plan or security-relevant events, or annually.
V-67801 Medium The Mainframe Product must limit the number of concurrent sessions to three for all accounts and/or account types.
V-68507 Medium The Mainframe Product must audit detected potential integrity violations.
V-68159 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to sensitive information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-68319 Medium The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change Mainframe Product user datasets to authorized individuals.
V-68337 Medium The Mainframe Product must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
V-68315 Medium The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change the Mainframe Product installation datasets to system programmers and authorized users in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-68317 Medium The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change Mainframe Product started task and job datasets to system programmers and authorized users in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-68311 Medium The Mainframe Product must audit the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the application.
V-68313 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification that the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization.
V-68395 Medium The Mainframe Product must allow the use of a temporary password for system logons with an immediate change to a permanent password.
V-68397 Medium The Mainframe Product must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after one hour.
V-68391 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.
V-68393 Medium The Mainframe Product must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
V-68505 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically shut down the information system, restart the information system, and/or implement security safeguards as conditions as defined in site security plan when integrity violations are discovered.
V-68399 Medium The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor.
V-68449 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.