PR.AA-01 Identities and credentials for authorized users, services, and hardware are managed by the organization
Identities and credentials for authorized users, services, and hardware are managed by the organization
Source: NIST CSF 2.0, PR.AA-01. 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 CSF 2.0 in the compliance library.
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
- Identity management platform configuration baseline · Cloud console / configuration management
- Service account inventory with owners · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Hardware credential inventory and reconciliation · Identity provider / directory
- Quarterly identity hygiene reports · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Joiner mover leaver workflow with timing SLAs · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Service accounts owned by individuals who have left
- Hardware credentials manual and stale
- JML SLAs missed for non production systems
- Inventory misses contractor identities
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 sheetID.RA-10 Critical suppliers are assessed prior to acquisition · PR.AA-02 Identities are proofed and bound to credentials based on the context of interactions