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Search results: zSecure

zSecure Alert - New Alert for Removal of Pending Master Key Material

Business Justification Master key change procedures often involve loading new key material into the NEW register days or weeks before activation. If this pending key material is accidentally or intentionally cleared, replaced, or otherwise removed...
2 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert Submitted

zSecure Alert - New Alert for NEW Master Key Register Population

Business Justification Today, zSecure provides the predefined Alert 1617 ("New master key promotion detected"), which is generated only after a master key has been promoted and the complete change process has been finalized. There is currently no ...
2 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert Submitted

add CKACUST member to code VTAMPROC=NET for Trusted list STC (stig ES000130)

For ES000130 (trusted STC), we get a non-compliant object for our STC NET whihc is VTAM. We don't want to rename our STC so we were wondering if we could have a CKACUST member in which we could code VTAMPROC=NET , this memeber would then be read b...
28 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit Under review

Identify users that fail to complete MFA registration

When the security administrator assigns an MFA factor with REGSTATE:OPEN for a user ID, you can only expect the user to complete the registration. But what if they ignore it? We need a way to identify users with REGSTATE:OPEN between the hundreds ...
28 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin Under review

zSecure Audit - CIS-OS-4.3 shall consider DFP datatag value for classification

As the RACF DFP-Segment offers the capability to add a (custom) datatag of SENSITIVE, NONSENSITIVE or UNKNOWN (by default) the classification rule should take this also into account and not only the 'sensdsn' field. Hence it shall report a dataset...
about 1 month ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit Under review

Give pyRACF similar resources and priority to ZOAU

With Python gaining popularity on z/OS and a new generation of z/OS System Administrators coming onto the platform with prior Python experience, it is important that crucial subsystems like RACF delivers data in JSON format and gives access to qua...
over 1 year ago in zSecure Under review

zSecure - Add or Update existing AU.V 'Not empty' report to include MQM queues

We appreciate the capability provided by zSecure Audit 'Verify' to find 'Not empty' profiles and keep the database in a clean state.However, this report is limited for dataset (profiles) only. To keep the database in a clean state we would appreci...
3 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit Future consideration

Password spray alerts various sources

zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert Under review

zSecure - Correlation of Db2 Authorization Flows in zSecure Access Monitor

Background We recently migrated from Db2 internal authorization to RACF-based Db2 security using RACF profiles. While the functional behavior is correct, we have identified a significant limitation in audit transparency when analyzing Db2 authoriz...
4 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin Under review

Markdown file for IBM Redbooks and other mainframe documentation

This is not specific to zSecure but for overall IBM documentation. PDFs or weblink are fine, however they aren't that useful for AI to consume. For AI readability and easier consumption - request is to generate .md files for the upcoming IBM docum...
2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit Under review

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