ACSC Essential Eight
Regular backups – ACSC Essential Eight

ACSC Essential Eight E8-BACKUP-ISM-1812: Regular backups (ISM-1812): Unprivileged user accounts cannot access backups belonging to other user accounts

Unprivileged user accounts cannot access backups belonging to other user accounts. Required at Maturity Levels One, Two and Three of the Regular backups mitigation strategy (Appendices A, B and C); ISM control ISM-1812 in ASD's Essential Eight to ISM mapping (December 2023).

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 2 controls across 2 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • ISM-1812 Unprivileged access to other users' backups

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.13 Information backup

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in Regular backups – ACSC Essential Eight

You are reading one control. How much of ACSC Essential Eight have you already done?

ACSC Essential Eight E8-BACKUP-ISM-1812 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of ACSC Essential Eight your existing evidence covers. Hold FedRAMP Moderate and 18 of 176 ACSC Essential Eight controls already carry evidence.

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