The Mainframe Product must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-68393	SRG-APP-000165-MFP-000237	SV-82883r1_rule		Medium

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. To meet password policy requirements, passwords need to be changed at specific policy-based intervals. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed per policy requirements.

Description

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. To meet password policy requirements, passwords need to be changed at specific policy-based intervals. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed per policy requirements.

STIG	Date
Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide	2017-06-22

Details

Check Text ( C-68923r1_chk )
If the Mainframe Product employs an external security manager for all account management functions, this is not applicable. Examine user account management configurations. If the Mainframe Product account management configuration does not prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-74507r1_fix)
Configure the Mainframe Product account management to prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.