What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on SC.L2-3.13.3 Role Separation?

Evidence of separation between user and management interfaces; Configuration restricting administrative interface exposure; Architecture showing management plane separation.

What is the most common gap auditors find on SC.L2-3.13.3?

Administrative consoles reachable from user networks

CMMC 2.0 · System and Communications Protection

`SC.L2-3.13.3` Role Separation

Separate user functionality from system management functionality so ordinary users are not presented with administrative interfaces.

Source: CMMC 2.0, SC.L2-3.13.3. 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

moderate

to go live

Cloud console / configuration management

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 administrative interface exposure · Cloud console / configuration management

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Evidence of separation between user and management interfaces · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Architecture showing management plane separation · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 1 of 3 artefacts that already live in a system (Cloud console / configuration management); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Administrative consoles reachable from user networks
Separation logical in name only with shared credentials
Management interfaces exposed to the internet

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.

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SC.L2-3.13.2 Security Engineering · SC.L2-3.13.4 Shared Resource Control