Question & Answer
Question
- Are there any security settings that would prevent a malicious third party from logging in?
- If a malicious third party logs in, is there a way to detect this, such as sending a notification to the administrator's IBM ID email address?
- If a malicious third party logs in, what sensitive information can be seen on the CMC and what are some of the possible malicious operations?
Answer
- CMC use IBM Security Verify Service that is enabled for multi-factor authentication.
- CMC provides alert mechanism in case it detects multiple failed attempts. This alerting feature needs to be enabled to start receiving alerts. CMC also keeps an audit of all the login attempts.
- Operations that can be performed within CMC by a user depends upon role of the user, app-level access, resource/system level access. So in case of malicious user, it needs authorization to perform certain operations. Also sensitive information like IP addresses can be masked so that these details are not shared with CMC using data-masking feature.
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Modified date:
10 July 2025
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