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zSecure Audit

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Provide Size/Number of Bytes of Encrypted vs NonEncrypted Data

I am working with a Federal Client in the US assisting in their encryption project. Early on we were looking for a mechanism to track progress of encryption. They wanted to see both the number of files encrypted vs files yet to encrypt, but also, ...
23 days ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Submitted

zSecure Audit - CIS Benchmark - CIS-OS-1.2.12 Expired Certificate - show label

While the current control CIS-OS-1.2.12 checks for expired certificates it only lists the 'real' resource with the serial number. However, like IP addresses they do not mean a lot for an end user. Hence, I would suggest that not only the serial nu...
10 days ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Submitted

New/Updated RACF tests for Guardium that align with IBM's CIS guidance for DB2 z/OS

All federal agencies have to comply with STIG/CIS guidance to harden database systems. This includes privileges. IBM worked with CIS to develop guidance for DB2 z/OS which impacts RACF privileges assigned to DB2 z/OS databases. zSecure Audit for R...
11 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 1 Planned for future release

Modify RA.3.4 Report to show when a User has multiple groups that grant access to a profile.

When using RA.3.4 to list a User's access via direct permit or connect (Option2), the report does not indicate that the user may have access to the same resource via multiple groups. Would like to see a version of the code to be able to show the r...
9 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 2 Future consideration

Update STIG checks to perform scope expansion

Improve the scope expansion functionality for configuration files when running STIG checks. Currently it is a 1-to-1 comparison between the ID (user or group) listed in the config file versus the access list check. It would be greatly improved by ...
about 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Planned for future release

Provide a NEWLIST for all IBM-Defined and Site-Defined Sensitivity Types

Provide a NEWLIST for all IBM-defined and Site-defined Sensitivity Types that lists all sensitivity types, and selected attributes, regardless of the current access entitlements in the ACF2/RACF database.
3 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 4 Under review

zSecure - Do Not Truncate Audit Trail Information

When checking the Audit Trail from a User the details for all group connects and removals are quite large. When displaying the Audit Trail with a 'LU <user>' the Audit Trail is complete and simple to read. As we removed users to perform 'LU'...
almost 2 years ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 3 Future consideration

Improve the message CKR1403

We are in the middle of rolling out zSecure 3.1 (from 2.5) and zOS 3.1. Some of our production jobs running Carla are starting to get RC04 on this message: CKR10403. Its unclear that this message is pointing out an issue to be resolved or just inf...
4 months ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 1 Planned for future release

Add filtering for reporting on severity/priority in zSecure Audit

We have a need to report monthly on priority 30. It would be beneficial for us to create a report for only priority 30 etc... Currently the UI does not support filtering on Severity/Priority.
almost 2 years ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 5 Not under consideration

Option to include content of allowlists in printed Compliance reports.

Currently, for printed Compliance reports, used for auditing purposes, the allow lists, nor their contents are included in the reports. In previous versions of STIG compliance reports, the details were visibile, and we are pursueing having those a...
about 1 year ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration