AC.7 MFA for Administrative Accounts
Multi-factor authentication must be enabled for all administrative accounts on cloud services and where technically feasible on internal systems.
3
artefacts
1
held by a system
0
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
- MFA enrolment per admin · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Conditional Access policy targeting admin roles · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- PAM enforcement · Policy repository / GRC workspace
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
- breakglass admin without MFA
- service principals without protection
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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