Title

The IBM z/VM CA VM:Secure product Rules Facility must be restricted to appropriate personnel. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Configuring the operating system to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensures compliance with federal standards and establishes a common security baseline across DoD that reflects the most restrictive security posture consistent with operational requirements. Configuration settings are the set of parameters that can be changed in hardware, software, or firmware components of the system that affect the security posture and/or functionality of the system. Security-related parameters are those parameters impacting the security state of the system, including the parameters required to satisfy other security control requirements. Security-related parameters include, for example: registry settings; account, file, directory permission settings; and settings for functions, ports, protocols, services, and remote connections.

Check Content

Issue Command: VMSECURE CONFIG PRODUCT If there is no “ACCESS RULE” record, this is a finding. Issue command: VMSECURE RULES USER If no rules appear, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Ensure the product Rules Facility is installed and the Product configuration file contains an “ACCESS RULES” statement.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID:

Vulnerability ID: IBMZ-VM-001280

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Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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