Title

The IBM Z/VM CA VM:Secure product must be installed and operating. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. 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.

Check Content

Verify that CA VM:Secure product is operational on the system by entering the following command: From CMS Command line enter “VMSECURE VERSION”. If there is no response “VMSECURE” is not logged in, this is a finding.

Fix Text

CA VM:Secure product audits all commands. Ensure that CA VM:Secure product is installed and operational. Using CA VM:Secure product audit of all commands with z/VM standard journal record assures that all pertinent information is stored.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID:

Vulnerability ID: IBMZ-VM-000120

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Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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