Vulnerability Discussion

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one.

Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check

Examine installation and configuration settings.

Verify that the Mainframe Product identifies privileged functions, writes to SMF, and/or provides an SAF call to an external security manager (ESM) to generate audit records for all privilege activities or other system-level access.

If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the Mainframe Product to write to SMF and/or provide audit SAF to call for privileged activities or other system-level access.