ACSC Essential Eight
Restrict Administrative Privileges

ACSC Essential Eight ADMIN-ML2: Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML2)

All ML1 requirements plus: Privileged access to systems, applications and data repositories is disabled after 12 months unless revalidated. Privileged access to systems and applications is disabled after 45 days of inactivity. Privileged operating environments are not virtualised within unprivileged operating environments. Administrative activities are conducted through jump servers. Credentials for break glass accounts, local administrator accounts and service accounts are long, unique, unpredictable and managed. Privileged access events are centrally logged. Privileged user account and security group management events are centrally logged. Event logs are protected from unauthorised modification and deletion. Event logs from internet-facing servers are analysed in a timely manner to detect cyber security events. Cyber security events are analysed in a timely manner to identify cyber security incidents. Cyber security incidents are reported to the CISO and to ASD as soon as possible. Following identification of a cyber security incident, the cyber security incident response plan is enacted.

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