EvidenceSheet
NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) · C-SCRM Family: Identification and Authentication

IA-5 Authenticator Management

Manages authenticators issued to or by suppliers, including default credentials shipped with delivered components.

Source: NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain), IA-5. 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 NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) in the compliance library.

3
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
at each review
moderate
to go live
Document repository
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

  • Issuance and revocation records for external authenticators · Document repository

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Evidence default credentials on delivered components are changed · Identity provider / directory

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Protection of authenticators shared with suppliers · Vendor register / contract repository

First move

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

Common gaps auditors find

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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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