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    zSCC - SSO integration with OIDC

    Avoid the need to have LDAP or local user and offer SSO capabilities via OIDC to authenticate via an external identity provider (IdP) and potentially get MFA required by that IdP
    3 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Submitted

    Please add more SMF 119 fields to the display in EV.I.

    More SMF 119 fields would be helpful when checking things like levels of encrytion used. Currently, it appears that all SMF 119 data for a record is displayed on one line but it would probably take multiple lines to show most/all of the SMF 119 data.
    4 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Submitted

    LDAP group-based role assignments for zSCC

    Currently, zSCC supports role assignments at the individual user level only; LDAP group-based role assignments are not supported. This leads to additional administrative burden as access management cannot be centralized. It would be desirable to s...
    8 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 2 Submitted

    provide linkage between CIS safeguard and zSCC control for better traceability

    LoB users and auditors are typically familiar with the regulation side i.e. looking from that perspective. They are interested in seeing / tracing the mapping towards the zSCC goals. Currently for the CIS profiles zSCC provides linkage to the corr...
    8 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 1 Submitted

    More concise description for active DB2 status in DB2 CIS Report scan

    The DB2 CIS report contains a control stating whether DB2 is active or not (CIS-DB2-1.1.1:db2_subsystem_active). However in our opinion, the current wording of the control is quite confusing. In our case, DB2 is active but the overall status is se...
    9 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Submitted

    Enhance zSCC Dashboard to more timeously/automatically refresh Scan Status

    An automatic update will remove the constant refresh-button click.
    10 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

    Enhance zSCC UI to add customized name

    As service providing Compliance and Auditing services to multiple clients, and furthermore deploying multiple zSCC instances in 1 zCX Container it is difficult to distinguish between these multiple zSCC instances when sign-on. The only way for Adm...
    10 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

    Use historical SMF data for Threat Detection for Z

    We have provided IBM with months of SMF data to be used for Threat Detection for Z and their ongoing development of that product. We're told that with a new installation the product will essentially start from scratch - we think it would be a miss...
    11 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

    Apply 'Drift-over-time' and Delta reporting not only to same scope but also a different scope.

    it is possible to compare compliance from one scan to the next - on the SAME scope. But if example a Scope is one single LPAR, it is now possible to track compliance drift over time on the SAME scope. But if not possible to compare the compliance ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

    Assertions/Overrides required for zSCC Goal failures

    zSecure Audit use the Assertion/Override concept where a Control Test result can be overriden/justified/asserted to show compliance. Can zSCC provide the same functionality ?
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

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