The Mainframe Product must limit the number of concurrent sessions to three for all accounts and/or account types.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-205439
SRG-APP-000001-MFP-000001
SV-205439r960735_rule
Medium
Description
Application management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an application. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is helpful in limiting risks related to DoS attacks.
This requirement may be met via the application or by using information system session control provided by a web server with specialized session management capabilities. If it has been specified that this requirement will be handled by the application, the capability to limit the maximum number of concurrent single user sessions must be designed and built into the application.
This requirement addresses concurrent sessions for information system accounts and does not address concurrent sessions by single users via multiple system accounts. The maximum number of concurrent sessions should be defined based on mission needs and the operational environment for each system.