STIGUI
V-255829CAT II — Medium severitySV-255829r1265296_rule

The WebSphere Application Server Quality of Protection (QoP) must be set to use TLSv1.2 or higher.

Rule version WBSP-AS-000160 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-27

Discussion

Quality of Protection specifies the security level, ciphers, and mutual authentication settings for the Secure Socket Layer (SSL/TLS) configuration.

Check

From the administrative console, navigate to Security >> SSL certificate and key management.

Click "SSL configurations".

Click on each SSL configuration to review.

Under "Additional Properties", click "Quality of protection (QoP)" settings.

If the "Protocol" field does not show "TLSv1.2 or greater", this is a finding.

Fix

From the administrative console, navigate to Security >> SSL certificate and key management.

Click "SSL configurations".

Click on each SSL configuration.

Under "Additional Properties", click "Quality of protection (QoP)" settings.

At the "Protocol" pull-down menu, select "TLSv1.2 or greater".

Click "OK".

Click "Save".

Restart the DMGR and all the JVMs.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-255829
Group title
SRG-APP-000014-AS-000009
Rule ID
SV-255829r1265296_rule
Check ID
C-59502r876776_chk
Fix ID
F-59445r876777_fix