On 9/26/2018 9:33 AM, Larre Shiller wrote:
As part of a recent audit, we have been goaded into updating the permission and/or audit 
bits on certain Unix directories per the DISA STIG (which we use as our risk model).  
Those directories include many that are shipped by IBM and it's a fair bit of 
research/work.  So... you can easily imagine the problem here--when IBM ships a new 
release of z/OS or makes changes to either the directory structure or to the existing 
directories, our changes are backed out.  We have been trying to figure out a 
semi-automated "best practice" that would satisfy the Audit requirement, but 
have not had much success.  So... we started to wonder if anybody else is doing this and 
if so, how do they manage to keep track of directory changes and keep them updated per 
the STIG.  Any advice would be gratefully appreciated...

If these changes are a "best practice" then perhaps IBM could be similarly "goaded" via the requirements process?

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