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IBM Z Security and Compliance Center

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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
5 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 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...
11 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 1 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...
10 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 2 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...
11 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.
6 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Submitted