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IBM Z Security and Compliance Center

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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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

z/OS Naming Standard customizability

Many clients have their own naming standards ... examples : (1) During a Predefined Scan z/OSMF issues the following operator commands: D T D CN,EMCS,F,CN=xxxxx Where xxxx is the userid defined in zSSC for z/OSMF. D OMVS,O F CKCS1154,DISPLAY If th...
6 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 2 Future consideration

Compliance Dashboards at the requirements / functions level of each Regulation

Our customers will be able to have a view / dashboard that allows them to know their Security Posture at the requirements / functions level of each regulation we cover (PCI, NIST, CIS). For example, PCI has 12 requirements to cover, related to thi...
10 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from zCX

We would like to have support for capturing compliance data from all infra components/subsystems running on z/OS for all profiles. Especially DORA, CIS and BYO profiles (so host defined and predefined profiles, as it is currently setup in the zSCC...
8 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

Enhance zSCC Dashboard to more timeously/automatically refresh Scan Status

An automatic update will remove the constant refresh-button click.
about 1 month 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 ...
4 months 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 ?
4 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

Granular Goal customisation application

Currently is possible to customize Goal values for some goals. As example the Umask Value in SMF1154_2_FDCFUMASKSTR used by Goal #4002003 - Communications Server FTPSERV. But clients would want to use different values between different Profiles an...
4 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

Publish Profile and/or Goal deltas with each new release/fix pack (new goals, new components, etc…)

With zSecure there is now a seperate publication (online accesible link) that tell users what is new or deprecated as far as regulations, etc is concerned. As example : zSecure 310 Compliance Standards (October 2024).pdf . Would it be possible to ...
4 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Security and Compliance Center 0 Under review

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