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The Mainframe Product must use an external security manager for all account management functions.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-68127 SRG-APP-000023-MFP-000033 SV-82617r1_rule Medium
Description
Enterprise environments make application account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other error. A comprehensive application account management process that includes automation helps to ensure accounts designated as requiring attention are consistently and promptly addressed. Examples include, but are not limited to, using automation to take action on multiple accounts designated as inactive, suspended or terminated or by disabling accounts located in non-centralized account stores such as multiple servers. This requirement applies to all account types, including individual/user, shared, group, system, guest/anonymous, emergency, developer/manufacturer/vendor, temporary, and service. The application must be configured to automatically provide account management functions and these functions must immediately enforce the organization's current account policy. The automated mechanisms may reside within the application itself or may be offered by the operating system or other infrastructure providing automated account management capabilities. Automated mechanisms may be comprised of differing technologies that when placed together contain an overall automated mechanism supporting an organization's automated account management requirements. Account management functions include: assignment of group or role membership; identifying account type; specifying user access authorizations (i.e., privileges); account removal, update, or termination; and administrative alerts. The use of automated mechanisms can include, for example: using email or text messaging to automatically notify account managers when users are terminated or transferred; using the information system to monitor account usage; and using automated telephonic notification to report atypical system account usage.
STIG Date
Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide 2019-12-12

Details

Check Text ( C-68685r1_chk )
Examine installation and configuration settings.

If the Mainframe Product does not use an external security manager to support all account management functions, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-74243r1_fix)
Configure the Mainframe Product to use an external security manager for all account management functions.