AC-14 Permitted actions without identification or authentication
Requires the organization to identify and formally document the specific user actions that may be performed on the system without identifying or authenticating the user, and to record in the system security plan the busi
4
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
at each review
moderate
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
- Configuration evidence showing no action beyond that list is reachable unauthenticated · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Review record confirming the list is revisited when functionality changes · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Documented list of actions permitted without identification or authentication · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Security plan section carrying the rationale for each permitted action · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Start with the 1 of 4 artefacts that already live in a system (Identity provider / directory); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.
Common gaps auditors find
- Public pages and unauthenticated APIs grew over time and were never added to the list
- Rationale recorded as convenience rather than a mission or business need
- List documented once at authorization and never reconciled with the deployed system
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 sheetAC-12 Session control · AC-16 Security and Privacy Attributes. Provide the means to associate [organization-defined] with [organization-defined] for information in storage, in process, and/or in transmission; Ensure that the attribute associations are made and retained with the information; Establish