The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

From Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Associated with: CCI-000132

SV-82735r1_rule The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

Vulnerability discussion

Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident.In order to compile an accurate risk assessment, and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as application components, modules, session identifiers, filenames, host names, and functionality.Associating information about where the event occurred within the application provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured application.

Check content

Examine installation and configuration settings. Verify data written to external security manager audit files and/or SMF records contain information that details where events occurred. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the Mainframe Product audit records written to external security manager audit files and/or SMF records to contain information that details when (date and time) the events occurred.

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