AC.6 Periodic Review of Privileged Access
Review user accounts with special access privileges on a regular basis and remove or downgrade where no longer needed.
3
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
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
- Removed/downgraded log · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Quarterly admin review records · Identity provider / directory
- Access review attestation · Identity provider / directory
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Start with the 1 of 3 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
- no review evidence
- review performed but no action
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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