Title

IBM z/OS Required SMF data record types must be collected. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know when events occurred (date and time). Associating event types with detected events in the operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system. SMF data collection is the basic unit of tracking of all system functions and actions. Included in this tracking data are the audit records from each of the ACPs and system. If the required SMF data record types are not being collected, then accountability cannot be monitored, and its use in the execution of a contingency plan could be compromised. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004, SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000064-GPOS-00033, SRG-OS-000239-GPOS-00089, SRG-OS-000240-GPOS-00090, SRG-OS-000241-GPOS-00091, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000303-GPOS-00120, SRG-OS-000327-GPOS-00127, SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000458-GPOS-00203, SRG-OS-000461-GPOS-00205, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000463-GPOS-00207, SRG-OS-000465-GPOS-00209, SRG-OS-000466-GPOS-00210, SRG-OS-000467-GPOS-00211, SRG-OS-000468-GPOS-00212, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216, SRG-OS-000472-GPOS-00217, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218, SRG-OS-000474-GPOS-00219, SRG-OS-000475-GPOS-00220, SRG-OS-000476-GPOS-00221, SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222

Check Content

Refer to IEASYS00 member in SYS1.PARMLIB Concatenation. Determine proper SMFPRMxx member. If all of the required SMF record types identified below are collected, this is not a finding. IBM SMF Records to be collected at a minimum: 0 (00) - IPL 6 (06) - External Writer/ JES Output Writer/ Print Services Facility (PSF) 7 (07) - [SMF] Data Lost 14 (0E) - INPUT or RDBACK Data Set Activity 15 (0F) - OUTPUT, UPDAT, INOUT, or OUTIN Data Set Activity 17 (11) - Scratch Data Set Status 18 (12) - Rename Non-VSAM Data Set Status 24 (18) - JES2 Spool Offload 25 (19) - JES3 Device Allocation 26 (1A) - JES Job Purge 30 (1E) - Common Address Space Work 32 (20) - TSO/E User Work Accounting 41 (29) - DIV Objects and VLF Statistics 42 (2A) - DFSMS statistics and configuration 43 (2B) - JES Start 45 (2D) - JES Withdrawal/Stop 47 (2F) - JES SIGNON/Start Line (BSC)/LOGON 48 (30) - JES SIGNOFF/Stop Line (BSC)/LOGOFF 49 (31) - JES Integrity 52 (34) - JES2 LOGON/Start Line (SNA) 53 (35) - JES2 LOGOFF/Stop Line (SNA) 54 (36) - JES2 Integrity (SNA) 55 (37) - JES2 Network SIGNON 56 (38) - JES2 Network Integrity 57 (39) - JES2 Network SYSOUT Transmission 58 (3A) - JES2 Network SIGNOFF 60 (3C) - VSAM Volume Data Set Updated 61 (3D) - Integrated Catalog Facility Define Activity 62 (3E) - VSAM Component or Cluster Opened 64 (40) - VSAM Component or Cluster Status 65 (41) - Integrated Catalog Facility Delete Activity 66 (42) - Integrated Catalog Facility Alter Activity 80 (50) - RACF/TOP SECRET Processing 81 (51) - RACF Initialization 82 (52) - ICSF Statistics 83 (53) - RACF Audit Record For Data Sets 90 (5A) - System Status 92 (5C) except subtypes 10, 11 - OpenMVS File System Activity 102 (66) - DATABASE 2 Performance 103 (67) - IBM HTTP Server 110 (6E) - CICS/ESA Statistics 118 (76) - TCP/IP Statistics 119 (77) - TCP/IP Statistics 199 (C7) - TSOMON 230 (E6) - ACF2 or as specified in ACFFDR (vendor-supplied default is 230) 231 (E7) - TSS logs security events under this record type

Fix Text

Ensure that SMF recording options are consistent with those outlined below. IBM SMF Records to be collected at a minimum: 0 (00) - IPL 6 (06) - External Writer/ JES Output Writer/ Print Services Facility (PSF) 7 (07) - [SMF] Data Lost 14 (0E) - INPUT or RDBACK Data Set Activity 15 (0F) - OUTPUT, UPDAT, INOUT, or OUTIN Data Set Activity 17 (11) - Scratch Data Set Status 18 (12) - Rename Non-VSAM Data Set Status 24 (18) - JES2 Spool Offload 25 (19) - JES3 Device Allocation 26 (1A) - JES Job Purge 30 (1E) - Common Address Space Work 32 (20) - TSO/E User Work Accounting 41 (29) - DIV Objects and VLF Statistics 42 (2A) - DFSMS statistics and configuration 43 (2B) - JES Start 45 (2D) - JES Withdrawal/Stop 47 (2F) - JES SIGNON/Start Line (BSC)/LOGON 48 (30) - JES SIGNOFF/Stop Line (BSC)/LOGOFF 49 (31) - JES Integrity 52 (34) - JES2 LOGON/Start Line (SNA) 53 (35) - JES2 LOGOFF/Stop Line (SNA) 54 (36) - JES2 Integrity (SNA) 55 (37) - JES2 Network SIGNON 56 (38) - JES2 Network Integrity 57 (39) - JES2 Network SYSOUT Transmission 58 (3A) - JES2 Network SIGNOFF 60 (3C) - VSAM Volume Data Set Updated 61 (3D) - Integrated Catalog Facility Define Activity 62 (3E) - VSAM Component or Cluster Opened 64 (40) - VSAM Component or Cluster Status 65 (41) - Integrated Catalog Facility Delete Activity 66 (42) - Integrated Catalog Facility Alter Activity 80 (50) - RACF/TOP SECRET Processing 81 (51) - RACF Initialization 82 (52) - ICSF Statistics 83 (53) - RACF Audit Record For Data Sets 90 (5A) - System Status 92 (5C) except subtypes 10, 11 - OpenMVS File System Activity 102 (66) - DATABASE 2 Performance 103 (67) - IBM HTTP Server 110 (6E) - CICS/ESA Statistics 118 (76) - TCP/IP Statistics 119 (77) - TCP/IP Statistics 199 (C7) - TSOMON 230 (E6) - ACF2 or as specified in ACFFDR (vendor-supplied default is 230) 231 (E7) - TSS logs security events under this record type

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-223544r869034_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-223544

Group Title: SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.