STIGUI
V-205461CAT II — Medium severitySV-205461r960885_rule

The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

Rule version SRG-APP-000091-MFP-000116 · STIG v3 · 2026-09-03

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 the installation and configuration settings.

Verify that the Mainframe Product identifies privileged functions and writes to SMF and/or uses an external security manager to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the Mainframe Product to write to SMF and/or provide audit SAF call for the external security manager when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-205461
Group title
SRG-APP-000091
Rule ID
SV-205461r960885_rule
Check ID
C-5727r299616_chk
Fix ID
F-5727r299617_fix