IA.L2-3.5.2 Authentication
Authenticate or verify the identity of users, processes and devices as a precondition of granting access to organizational systems.
3
artefacts
2
held by a system
1
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
- Authentication mechanism configuration per system · Identity provider / directory
- Device and service authentication configuration · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Evidence authentication precedes access in all paths · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
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
- Anonymous or unauthenticated access paths remain
- Device authentication absent
- Legacy applications bypass central authentication
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 sheetIA.L2-3.5.1 Identification · IA.L2-3.5.3 Multifactor Authentication