IM-3 Manage application identities securely and automatically
Use managed identities, service principals, or federated credentials for application authentication instead of stored secrets.
3
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
Identity provider / directory
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Service principal credential rotation log · Identity provider / directory
- Workload identity federation configuration · Cloud console / configuration management
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Managed identity inventory · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Automate the pull from your Identity provider / directory. Scheduled export of users, roles and MFA state from the directory; access-review completion pulled from the IdP, not a spreadsheet.
Common gaps auditors find
- Service principal secrets unrotated
- Credentials in code repositories
- Over-permissioned managed identities
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetIM-2 Protect identity and authentication systems · IM-4 Authenticate server and services