What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on AC.L2-3.1.15 Privileged Remote Access?

Documented authorization for remote privileged operations; Configuration restricting remote privileged command execution; Logs of remote privileged sessions and the approvals behind them.

What is the most common gap auditors find on AC.L2-3.1.15?

Remote administration allowed to anyone holding admin rights

CMMC 2.0 · Access Control

`AC.L2-3.1.15` Privileged Remote Access

Require explicit authorization before privileged commands may be executed remotely or security relevant information accessed remotely.

Source: CMMC 2.0, AC.L2-3.1.15. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CMMC 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

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. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

Configuration restricting remote privileged command execution · Identity provider / directory
Logs of remote privileged sessions and the approvals behind them · Identity provider / directory

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Documented authorization for remote privileged operations · 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

Remote administration allowed to anyone holding admin rights
Authorization implied by role rather than explicitly granted
No record tying remote privileged activity to an approval

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 sheet

AC.L2-3.1.14 Remote Access Routing · AC.L2-3.1.16 Wireless Access Authorization