STIGUI
V-205604CAT II — Medium severitySV-205604r961803_rule

The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.

Rule version SRG-APP-000496-MFP-000121 · 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 installation and configuration settings.

Verify that the Mainframe Product identifies all security object; writes to SMF and/or uses an external security manager to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the Mainframe Product to write to SMF and/or provide audit SAF to call when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-205604
Group title
SRG-APP-000496
Rule ID
SV-205604r961803_rule
Check ID
C-5870r300039_chk
Fix ID
F-5870r300040_fix