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1 Vanguard Active Alerts Jim McNeill Sr Consultant

2 Legal Notice Copyright All Rights Reserved. You have a limited license to view these materials for your organization s internal purposes. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, exhibition or use of these copyrighted materials is expressly prohibited. Trademarks The following are trademarks of Vanguard Integrity Professionals Nevada: Vanguard Administrator Vanguard Configuration Manager Vanguard Advisor Vanguard Configuration Manager Enterprise Edition Vanguard Analyzer Vanguard Policy Manager Vanguard SecurityCenter Vanguard Enforcer Vanguard SecurityCenter for DB2 Vanguard ez/token Vanguard Offline Vanguard Tokenless Authenticator Vanguard Cleanup Vanguard ez/piv Card Authenticator Vanguard PasswordReset Vanguard ez/integrator Vanguard Authenticator Vanguard ez/signon Vanguard incompliance Vanguard ez/password Synchronization Vanguard IAM Vanguard Security Solutions Vanguard GRC Vanguard Security & Compliance Vanguard QuickGen Vanguard zsecurity University Vanguard Active Alerts 2

3 Trademarks The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation: CICS CICSPlex DB2 eserver IBM IBM z IBM z Systems IBM z13 IMS MQSeries MVS NetView OS/390 Parallel Sysplex RACF RMF S/390 System z System z9 System z10 System/390 VTAM WebSphere z Systems z9 z10 z13 z/architecture z/os z/vm zenterprise Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc.

4 Topics A Brief History What are Vanguard Active Alerts? Which Alerts are Available? Which Alerts are Active? Who will receive which Alerts? Masking for Alerts Customizing the Notices Setting up the Started Tasks Migration 4

5 A Brief History Originated as a feature of Vanguard Advisor in the late 1990s Alerts were added to Vanguard Enforcer in 2002 Over time the two sets of alerts diverged Some alerts in Vanguard Advisor only Some alerts in Vanguard Enforcer only In VSS 2.1 the alerts were consolidated Packaged as a new product Datecode for Vanguard Advisor or Vanguard Enforcer will work Can be used standalone with it s own datecode 5

6 A Brief History - VANOPTS members Vanguard Vanguard Vanguard Advisor Enforcer Active Alerts RFxxxTXT EAxxxTXT AAxxxTXT VRSOPT00 VEAOPT00 VAAOPT00 VSREAL00 VEAEAL00 VAAEAL00 VSRRTNxx VEARTNxx VAARTNxx OPT OPT OPT LST LST LST Shared by ALL products 6

7 What are Active Alerts? The ability to be notified immediately when a security event or combination of events occur. Notification can be: SNMP (listeners) WTO 7

8 Which Alerts are Available Violation Notices and 16 Others Immediate notifications sent when certain events occur (within seconds) Requires 2 Started Tasks to be running VAAJTASK VAAJRTN Must be run on each LPAR Requires an SMTP server somewhere in your NJE network (for ) 8

9 Which Alerts are Available Violation Notices An will be sent for selected violations. Notices are sent based on 6 selection criteria. One or more s can be sent per violation. User Group Jobname Profile mask Owner Dataset mask 9

10 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 1 RACF Command text is scanned and an is sent if an Add User profile (ADDUSER or AU) or an Alter User Profile (ALTUSER or ALU) command was issued with OPERATIONS, SPECIAL, AUDITOR, UID(0) or NOPASS. Active Alert 2 RACF Command text is scanned and an is sent if a Connect (CONNECT or CO) command was issued with OPERATIONS, SPECIAL or AUDITOR or with CREATE, CONNECT or JOIN via the AUTHORITY parameter. 10

11 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 3 RACF Command text is scanned and an is sent if an Add Data Set profile (ADDSD or AD) or an Alter Data Set Profile (ALTDSD or ALD) command was issued with a UACC of ALTER, CONTROL, or UPDATE. Active Alert 4 RACF Command text is scanned and an is sent if an Add Data Set profile (ADDSD or AD) or an Alter Data Set Profile (ALTDSD or ALD) command was issued with a UACC of READ, ALTER, CONTROL, or UPDATE. 11

12 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 5 Mimics Violations Notices, except it looks for warnings. An Active Alert 5 can be thought of as a "Warning Notice". Active Alert 6 Intrusion Detection, will send an whenever a single userid experiences n logon failures due to an invalid password within t minutes or seconds, where n and t are values specified in the options file. 12

13 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 7 Password Recycling will send an whenever a single userid has its password changed more than n times in t minutes or seconds, where n and t are values specified in the options file. Active Alert 8 By Default, any SETROPTS command is issued or any RVARY command(except LIST) is issued. --- OR --- Any command specified by an enhanced masking pattern or patterns specified by the user. 13

14 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 9 Lost SMF will send an whenever an SMF Data Lost record is detected in the SMF data stream, signaling the loss of potentially critical SMF logging data. Active Alert 10 Auto revoke will send an whenever a userid is revoked due to too many invalid password attempts. 14

15 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 11 Firecall id usage - will send an if a userid is activated (logon, started task initialization, batch job, etc.). The user can specify selection criteria to specify the userids to be reported on or ignored. Active Alert 12 Intrusion detection via Vanguard ez/signon. 15

16 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 13 An Active Alert is sent when access to a resource is attempted regardless of the success. A Resource and Access by Userid Detail Report is executed. You can specify any masking criteria available for this report in a RTNAA13(xx) member to narrow the scope of the Active Alert. Active Alert 14 An Active Alert message will be sent when the REVOKE operand is present and either a RACF ALTUSER or RACF CONNECT command is issued. An administrator can specify filters to select events to be processed by specifying the RTNAA14(xx) parameter in VAAOPT00. 16

17 Which Alerts are Available Active Alert 15 An Active Alert is sent when a member of a library (PDS or PDSE) is added, deleted, renamed or replaced. An administrator can specify filters to select events to be processed by specifying the RTNAA15(xx) parameter in VAAOPTxx. Active Alert 16 An Active Alert is sent when a DB2 audited table is altered, created or dropped. An administrator can specify filters to select events to be processed by specifying the RTNAA16(xx) parameter in VAAOPTxx. 17

18 Which Alerts are Active 18

19 Who will receive which Alerts Alerts 1 4, 6 16 have individual addresses Violation notices and Warn notices (Alert 5) You can send one or more notices per event Multiple criteria available 19

20 Who will receive which Alerts Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc.

21 Who will receive which Alerts Up to 6 criteria for Violation notices and Warn notices 3 based on who caused the Violation 3 based on what resource was Violated USERID(1-8 CHARACTERS) ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) GROUP(1-8 CHARACTERS) ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) JOBNAME(1-8 CHARACTERS) ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) OWNER(1-8 CHARACTERS) ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) DATASET(1-44 CHARACTERS) ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) PROFNAME(1-44 CHARACTERS) ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) NOMATCH ADDR (1-60 CHARACTERS) 21

22 Who will receive which Alerts In the VANOPTS data set member VSREAL00 for Violation Notices and Active Alert 5 SELECTBY(USERID,DATASET,OWNER) USERID(AB*) ADDR(BOBS@GO2VANGUARD.COM) USERID(*) ADDR(JIMM@GO2VANGUARD.COM) OWNER(VANGUARD) ADDR(JIMM@GO2VANGUARD.COM) DATASET(PAYROLL*) ADDR(ARTH@GO2VANGUARD.COM) DATASET(*) ADDR(PHILE@GO2VANGUARD.COM) DATASET(OS*) ADDR(JHICKMA@VIPLINK.COM) NOMATCH ADDR(NOMATCH@VIPLINK.COM) In VSROPT00, keyword SENDALL (YES NO) determines if multiple s will be sent 22

23 Masking for Alerts In VAAOPT00: RTNVIOLATIONS(01) RTNAA5(05) In VAARTN01: (USERID EQ DICKM* OR USERID EQ JIM*) AND (DATASET EQ SYS1*) In VAARTN05: (DATASET EQ PAYROLL* OR DATASET EQ SYS1.*) 23

24 Masking for Alerts 24

25 Customizing the Notices You control what the notice looks like Variables from the SMF record are available Blank lines for readability 25

26 Customizing the Notices 26

27 Customizing the Notices 27

28 Customizing the Notices 28

29 Customizing the Notices 29

30 Setting up the Started Tasks VAAJTASK Collection Task Writes SMF records to wrap-around data space Selects which records to collect VAAJRTN Notification task Creates and send the notices 30

31 Setting up the Started Tasks Customize JCL and put in PROCLIB Select Options in VAAOPT00 Setup Started Class Profiles STCIDs need READ to VANOPTS STCIDs need READ to VANLOAD Start VAAJTASK, then VAAJRTN 31

32 Migration In VANSAMP: VAACVEA convert Vanguard Enforcer alerts to VAA alerts VAACVSR convert Vanguard Advisor alerts to VAA alerts These 2 utilities will read the old members of VANOPTS and create the new VAA members. At some point in the future, support for Vanguard Enforcer and Vanguard Advisor active alerts will be withdrawn. That date has not been announced yet. 32

33 Summary You control everything Which Alerts Format of the alert Who receives the alerts Questions?????? 33

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