AC.5 Separate Admin Accounts for Administrative Activities
Use separate accounts to perform administrative activities only. Admin accounts must not be used for routine activities like email and web browsing.
2
artefacts
0
held by a system
0
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
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Named admin accounts (e.g. adm-jdoe) · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Conditional access blocking email/web for admin accounts · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- daily-driver account with Global Admin
- browsing from admin account
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.4 Privileged Account Approval and Tracking · AC.6 Periodic Review of Privileged Access