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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (194)
2024-07-02 CAT I (High): 0 CAT II (Med): 194 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 email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC III - Administrative Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-205593 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-205443 Medium The Mainframe Product must retain the session lock until the user reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures.
V-205594 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-205595 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-205536 Medium Mainframe Products requiring user access authentication must provide a logoff capability for a user-initiated communication session.
V-205537 Medium The Mainframe Product must display an explicit logoff message to users indicating the reliable termination of authenticated communications sessions.
V-205534 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators for account removal actions.
V-205535 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-205532 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators when accounts are modified.
V-205533 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators for account disabling actions.
V-205530 Medium The Mainframe Product must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit tools.
V-205531 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators when accounts are created.
V-205597 Medium The Mainframe Product must audit detected potential integrity violations.
V-205538 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-205539 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-205439 Medium The Mainframe Product must limit the number of concurrent sessions to three for all accounts and/or account types.
V-205518 Medium The Mainframe Product must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
V-205596 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-205482 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.
V-205483 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-205480 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.
V-205481 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.
V-205486 Medium The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change Mainframe Product user datasets to authorized individuals.
V-205487 Medium The Mainframe Product must be configured to disable non-essential capabilities.
V-205484 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-205485 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-205521 Medium The Mainframe Product must isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions.
V-205520 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
V-205523 Medium The Mainframe Product must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
V-205522 Medium The Mainframe Product must be configured such that emergency accounts are never automatically removed or disabled.
V-205525 Medium The Mainframe Product must reveal full-text detail error messages only to system programmers and/or security administrators.
V-205524 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-205527 Medium The Mainframe product must notify the system programmer and security administrator of failed security verification tests.
V-205526 Medium The Mainframe Product must update malicious code protection mechanisms whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy.
V-205519 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-205446 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically disable accounts after 35 days of account inactivity.
V-205447 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account creation.
V-205444 Medium The Mainframe Product must use an external security manager for all account management functions.
V-205494 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
V-205497 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.
V-205496 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
V-205491 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.
V-205490 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.
V-205493 Medium The Mainframe Product must verify users are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.
V-205492 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to nonprivileged accounts.
V-205554 Medium The Mainframe Product must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.
V-205555 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-205556 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-205557 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
V-205499 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.
V-205498 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
V-205553 Medium The mainframe product must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
V-205440 Medium The Mainframe Product must conceal, via the session lock, information previously visible on the display with a publicly viewable image.
V-205441 Medium The Mainframe Product must initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity.
V-205547 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-205546 Medium The Mainframe Product must audit the execution of privileged functions.
V-205545 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-205544 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
V-205543 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.
V-205542 Medium The Mainframe Product must notify system programmers and security administrators of account enabling actions.
V-205541 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account enabling actions.
V-205540 Medium The Mainframe Product must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group.
V-205503 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.
V-205468 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of the events.
V-205469 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records containing information to establish the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.
V-205591 Medium The Mainframe Product performing organization-defined security functions must verify correct operation of security functions.
V-205502 Medium The Mainframe Product must transmit only cryptographically protected passwords.
V-205460 Medium The Mainframe Product must allow only the information system security manager (ISSM) or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM to select which auditable events are to be audited.
V-205461 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.
V-205462 Medium The Mainframe Product must initiate session auditing upon startup.
V-205464 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-205465 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.
V-205466 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
V-205467 Medium The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
V-263683 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect nonlocal maintenance sessions by separating the maintenance session from other network sessions with the system by logically separated communications paths.
V-205507 Medium The Mainframe Product must map the authenticated identity to the individual user or group account for PKI-based authentication.
V-205500 Medium The Mainframe Product must require the change of at least eight of the total number of characters when passwords are changed.
V-205506 Medium The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key.
V-205573 Medium The Mainframe Product must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after one hour.
V-205570 Medium The Mainframe Product must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
V-205571 Medium The Mainframe Product must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials.
V-205576 Medium The Mainframe Product must accept Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)-approved third-party credentials.
V-205577 Medium The Mainframe Product must conform to Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM)-issued profiles.
V-205574 Medium The Mainframe Product must accept Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies.
V-205575 Medium The Mainframe Product must electronically verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials from other federal agencies.
V-205578 Medium Mainframe Products must audit nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions audit events as defined in site security plan.
V-205579 Medium Mainframe Products must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications.
V-205501 Medium The Mainframe Product must store only cryptographically protected passwords.
V-205558 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.
V-205559 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
V-205479 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.
V-205478 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from unauthorized modification.
V-205473 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.
V-205472 Medium The Mainframe Product must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).
V-205471 Medium The Mainframe Product must alert the system administrator (SA) and information system security officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.
V-205470 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-205477 Medium The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from any type of unauthorized read access.
V-205476 Medium The Mainframe Products must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.
V-205475 Medium The Mainframe Products must provide the capability to filter audit records for events of interest as defined in site security plan.
V-205474 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code.
V-205565 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement organization-defined automated security responses if baseline configurations are changed in an unauthorized manner.
V-205564 Medium The Mainframe product must prohibit user installation of software without explicit privileged status.
V-205567 Medium The Mainframe Product must audit the enforcement actions used to restrict access associated with changes to the application.
V-205566 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to application configuration.
V-205561 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.
V-205560 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
V-205563 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide a report generation capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.
V-205562 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.
V-205504 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.
V-263669 Medium The Mainframe Product must disable accounts when the accounts have expired.
V-205608 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security levels occur.
V-205609 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.
V-205448 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account modification.
V-205449 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account disabling actions.
V-205600 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.
V-205601 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security levels occur.
V-205602 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
V-205603 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.
V-205604 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.
V-205605 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security levels occur.
V-205606 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
V-205607 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges occur.
V-205582 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-205514 Medium The Mainframe Product must block, quarantine, and/or alert system administrators when prohibited mobile code is identified.
V-205515 Medium The Mainframe Product must prevent the download of prohibited mobile code.
V-205529 Medium The Mainframe Product must configure malicious code protection mechanisms to perform periodic scans of the information system every seven days.
V-205590 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-205528 Medium The Mainframe Product must update malicious code protection mechanisms whenever new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management procedures.
V-205505 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-205587 Medium The Mainframe Product must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives when invalid inputs are received.
V-205510 Medium The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).
V-205511 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
V-205513 Medium The Mainframe Product must identify prohibited mobile code.
V-263679 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, require immediate selection of a new password upon account recovery.
V-263678 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, verify when users create or update passwords, that the passwords are not found on the list of commonly-used, expected, or compromised passwords in IA-5 (1) (a).
V-205516 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-205517 Medium The Mainframe Product must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality.
V-263675 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, maintain a list of commonly used, expected, or compromised passwords on an organization-defined frequency.
V-263674 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement multifactor authentication for local; network; and/or remote access to privileged accounts; and/or nonprivileged accounts such that the device meets organization-defined strength of mechanism requirements.
V-263677 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, update the list of passwords when organizational passwords are suspected to have been compromised directly or indirectly.
V-263676 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, update the list of passwords on an organization-defined frequency.
V-263671 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.
V-263670 Medium The Mainframe Product must disable accounts when the accounts are no longer associated to a user.
V-263673 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement multifactor authentication for local; network; and/or remote access to privileged accounts; and/or nonprivileged accounts such that one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the system gaining access.
V-263672 Medium The Mainframe Product must alert organization-defined personnel or roles upon detection of unauthorized access, modification, or deletion of audit information.
V-205451 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-205450 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account removal actions.
V-205453 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-205618 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all kernel module load, unload, and restart events, and for all program initiations.
V-205455 Medium The Mainframe Product must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.
V-205454 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-205457 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-205456 Medium Mainframe Products scanning for malicious code must scan all media used for system maintenance prior to use.
V-205613 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.
V-205612 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access.
V-205592 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-205610 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
V-205617 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.
V-205616 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all direct access to the information system.
V-205615 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.
V-205614 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur.
V-205488 Medium The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
V-205598 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 the SSP.
V-205489 Medium The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts.
V-205599 Medium The Mainframe Product must prompt the user for action prior to executing mobile code.
V-205585 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-205445 Medium The Mainframe Product must automatically remove or disable temporary user accounts after 72 hours.
V-205619 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-263680 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, allow user selection of long passwords and passphrases, including spaces and all printable characters.
V-263681 Medium The Mainframe Product must, for password-based authentication, employ automated tools to assist the user in selecting strong password authenticators.
V-263682 Medium The Mainframe Product must for public key-based authentication, implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation.
V-205452 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-263684 Medium The Mainframe Product must include only approved trust anchors in trust stores or certificate stores managed by the organization.
V-263685 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide protected storage for cryptographic keys with organization-defined safeguards and/or hardware protected key store.
V-263686 Medium The Mainframe Product must synchronize system clocks within and between systems or system components.
V-263687 Medium The Mainframe Product must compare the internal system clocks on an organization-defined frequency with organization-defined authoritative time source.
V-205509 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-205508 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-205459 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all application components.
V-205589 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-205588 Medium The Mainframe Product must implement security safeguards to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.
V-205584 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-205442 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for users to directly initiate a session lock.
V-205581 Medium Mainframe Products must verify remote disconnection at the termination of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.
V-205580 Medium Mainframe Products must implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic communications.
V-205622 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-205586 Medium The Mainframe Product must maintain a separate execution domain for each executing process.
V-205620 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-205621 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-219061 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-219060 Medium The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for authorized users to select a user session to capture/record or view/hear.
V-253508 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-205458 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 site security plan.
V-205611 Medium The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.