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Stig RACF-ES-000200 and CICS users

Hi, We run hundreds of CICS regions unser the same Grp , however the STIG rule ES-000200 is as follow : CSVLLAS_uca_permits rule: UPDATE and higher access to a resource protected by a FACILITY class CSVLLA.dsname profile allows users to work with ...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

MFA User Segment alerts

Hello IBM, Our team thinks the addition of MFA segment related user alerts would benefit zSecure. Currently there are no alerts for adding or deleting MFA Segments on the mainframe and we believe that the addition of this alert would be beneficial...
10 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 3 Future consideration

Provide ability to specify where to find SSH configuration for STIG reporting

I've been pointed to documentation and told that currently the STIG check RACF-SH-000010 will default to /etc/ssh for the configuration file even though we start SSH pointing to a script in a different location that specifies a different path to t...
8 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

zSecure - Accessing Remote files via CKNSERVE must support DSNPREF

With the recent zSecure 3.1.0 September release availability support for Access Monitor files from Remote Systems via CKNSERVE is available. That function is well appreciated, however it only supports remote files that are fully specified. This fu...
over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Future consideration

IP filter rule enhancement to include IKED (IPsec Policy)

Alert 1615 only covers changes to the IP rules defined in the TCPIP Profile statement IPSEC->IPSECR<-ENDIPSEC. As we are supposed to use Policy Agent to configure IPsec rules, this alert is then kind of 'useless' as this default IPSECR state...
over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Future consideration

zSecure - Alert 1115 Too many violations - filter enhancement

Currently Alert 1115 does only allow customization for a) the amount of violations and a.1) specific users being revoked exceeding the limit via option 'Customize alert selection list'. I would suggest there second option to allow excludes for a w...
almost 2 years ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 1 Future consideration

new zSecure Alert for SENSITIVITY=Site-Res-U (and also Site-Res-R for Read)

Member SENSRSRC shows 3 example for sensitive resources. Site-Dsn-R is covered by Alert 1212 (Access>=READ on site sensitive data set) Site-Dsn-U is covered by Alert 1213 (Access>=UPDATE on site sensitive data set) Site-Res-U is not yet cove...
6 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 2 Future consideration

z/Secure Admin - Display RACF database information such as % used.

This would be useful information to be displayed, from a datasource like CKFREEZE or if from the CKRCARLA output. Information such as: RACF Database datasets & volumes. RACF Database dataset size / % used. What are the parameters used. Current...
about 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 4 Future consideration