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V-223572

CAT II (Medium)

IBM z/OS Policy agent must contain a policy that manages excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

Rule ID

SV-223572r958528_rule

STIG

IBM z/OS ACF2 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V9R8

CCIs

CCI-001095

Discussion

DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity.

Check Content

Examine the Policy Agent policy statements. If it can be determined that there are policy statements that manages excess capacity, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Develop Policy application and Policy agent to manage excess capacity.