EvidenceSheet
NIST CSF 2.0 · PR - Protect

PR.AA-05 Access permissions, entitlements, and authorizations are defined in a policy, managed, enforced, and…

Access permissions, entitlements, and authorizations are defined in a policy, managed, enforced, and reviewed, and incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, PR.AA-05. 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.

5
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
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

  • Privileged access management deployment evidence · Identity provider / directory

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Periodic access reviews with sign off · Document repository
  • Just in time access workflow records · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Access policy framework with role definitions · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Segregation of duties matrix · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your Identity provider / directory on a schedule; put the documents under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

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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PR.AA-04 Identity assertions are protected, conveyed, and verified · PR.AA-06 Physical access to assets is managed, monitored, and enforced commensurate with risk