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V-205461

CAT II (Medium)

The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

Rule ID

SV-205461r960885_rule

STIG

Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Version

V3R4

CCIs

CCI-000172

Discussion

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check Content

Examine the installation and configuration settings.

Verify that the Mainframe Product identifies privileged functions and writes to SMF and/or uses an external security manager to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur. 

If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the Mainframe Product to write to SMF and/or provide audit SAF call for the external security manager when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.