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4.2.13 Restrict Access to SYSCAT.EVENTTABLES

Information

The SYSCAT.EVENTTABLES view contains the name of the destination table that will receive the monitoring events. It is recommended that the PUBLIC role be restricted from accessing this view.

Rationale:

PUBLIC should not have access to see the target name of the event monitoring table.

Solution

Perform the following to revoke access from PUBLIC.

Connect to the Db2 database.

db2 => connect to <dbname>

Run the following command:

db2 => REVOKE SELECT ON SYSCAT.EVENTTABLES FROM PUBLIC

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23492

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

References: 800-53|AC-3, 800-53|AC-5, 800-53|AC-6, 800-53|MP-2, CSCv7|14.6

Plugin: IBM_DB2DB

Control ID: c741c9ffc37f716b55d68ce7c4a3dc4c1f1c167e88c4269f64d6b8034e9506b4