SC.5 Password-Based Authentication Quality
Where passwords are the only factor, protect against brute force by lockout (max 10 attempts in 5 min), throttling, or by enforcing one of: MFA, password length 12+, length 8+ with deny list, or length 8+ with technical
3
artefacts
3
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
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
- AD/Entra password policy export · Identity provider / directory
- Account lockout config · Identity provider / directory
- MFA enrolment report · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Automate the pull from your Identity provider / directory. Scheduled export of users, roles and MFA state from the directory; access-review completion pulled from the IdP, not a spreadsheet.
Common gaps auditors find
- 8-char passwords without deny list
- no lockout threshold
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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