ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents
Limiting the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents

ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents ASD37-18: Restrict administrative privileges (Essential)

Restrict administrative privileges to operating systems and applications based on user duties. Regularly revalidate the need for privileges. Don't use privileged accounts for reading email and web browsing.

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 197 controls across 104 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

CIS Controls v8 · 6 controls

  • CIS-12.8 Establish and Maintain Dedicated Computing Resources for All Administrative Work
  • CIS-3.3 Configure Data Access Control Lists
  • CIS-5.1 Establish and Maintain an Inventory of Accounts
  • CIS-5.4 Restrict Administrator Privileges to Dedicated Administrator Accounts
  • CIS-6.1 Establish an Access Granting Process
  • CIS-6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 6 controls

  • ANSSI-HYG-05 Maintain an Exhaustive Inventory of Privileged Accounts
  • ANSSI-HYG-06 Organise Joiner, Leaver and Role Change Procedures
  • ANSSI-HYG-08 Identify Each Person by Name and Separate User and Administrator Roles
  • ANSSI-HYG-09 Assign the Correct Rights on Sensitive Resources
  • ANSSI-HYG-29 Limit Administration Rights on Workstations to Operational Need

FedRAMP High · 5 controls

  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-6(2) Non-Privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions
  • AC-6(5) Privileged Accounts
  • AC-6(7) Review of User Privileges

FedRAMP Moderate · 5 controls

  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-6(2) Non-Privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions
  • AC-6(5) Privileged Accounts
  • AC-6(7) Review of User Privileges

HIPAA Security Rule · 5 controls

  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-6(2) Non-Privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions
  • AC-6(5) Privileged Accounts
  • AC-6(7) Review of User Privileges
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • AC-6(2) Non-Privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions
  • AC-6(5) Privileged Accounts
  • AC-6(7) Review of User Privileges

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 5 controls

  • ASBv3-PA-4 Review and reconcile user access regularly
  • ASBv3-PA-6 Use privileged access workstations
  • ASBv3-PA-7 Follow just enough administration (least privilege) principle
  • PA-1 Separate and limit highly privileged/administrative users

CMMC 2.0 · 4 controls

ACSC Essential Eight · 3 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 3 controls

  • 5.18 Access rights
  • 8.18 Use of privileged utility programs
  • 8.2 Privileged access rights

ISO 27002:2022 · 3 controls

  • 5.18 Access rights
  • 8.18 Use of privileged utility programs
  • 8.2 Privileged access rights
  • NIST-CSF-PR.AA-01 Identities and credentials for authorized users, services, and hardware are managed by the organization
  • NIST-CSF-PR.AA-05 Access permissions, entitlements, and authorizations are defined in a policy, managed, enforced, and reviewed, and incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties
  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-05 Installation and execution of unauthorized software are prevented

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 · 3 controls

  • DSOMM-1 Culture, Organization, Education, and Governance
  • DSOMM-3 Build, Deployment, Infrastructure Hardening, and Secrets Management
  • DSOMM-4 Test and Verification - SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, Penetration Testing
  • OWASPLLM-1 Prompt Injection and System Prompt Leakage (LLM01 + LLM07)
  • OWASPLLM-2 Improper Output Handling and Misinformation (LLM05 + LLM09)
  • OWASPLLM-6 Excessive Agency and Unbounded Consumption (LLM06 + LLM10)

PCI DSS 4.0 · 3 controls

  • 7.2.2 Access is assigned to users, including privileged users, based on: • Job classification and function. • Least privileges necessary to perform job responsibilities
  • 7.2.3 Required privileges are approved by authorized personnel
  • 7.2.4 All user accounts and related access privileges, including third-party/vendor accounts, are reviewed as follows: • At least once every six months. • To ensure user accounts and access remain appropriate based on job function.

SOC 2 · 3 controls

  • SOC2-CC6.1 Implements logical access security software, infrastructure and architectures over protected information assets
  • SOC2-CC6.2 Prior to granting access, registration and authorization processes are established
  • SOC2-CC6.3 Role-based access and least privilege are enforced

UK Cyber Essentials · 3 controls

  • CE-AC.4 Privileged Account Approval and Tracking
  • CE-AC.5 Separate Admin Accounts for Administrative Activities
  • CE-AC.6 Periodic Review of Privileged Access

C5 (Germany) · 2 controls

  • NISTPF-3 Control-P - Privacy Controls, Data Management, and Disassociated Processing
  • NISTPF-5 Protect-P Access Control (PR.AC-P)
  • SAM-1 Customer Information Confidentiality (Section 48)
  • SAM-6 Legal Authorization Requirements

BSI IT-Grundschutz · 1 control

  • BSI-02 Access enforcement and least privilege
  • BE-CF-02 Access enforcement and least privilege

FDA 21 CFR Part 11 · 1 control

  • Part11.AccessAndAuth Access control + authority + device checks (21 CFR §11.10(d) + (f) + (g) + (h))

FISMA · 1 control

FedRAMP Rev 5 · 1 control

HITECH Act · 1 control

  • 62351-8 Role-based access control (RBAC)

ISMAP (Japan) · 1 control

ISO 13485 · 1 control

ISO 27017 · 1 control

ISO 27018 · 1 control

ISO 27043 · 1 control

ISO 27799 · 1 control

ISO/IEC 27011:2024 · 1 control

ISO/IEC 27400:2022 · 1 control

ISO/SAE 21434 · 1 control

MARS-E · 1 control

MITRE ATT&CK · 1 control

MITRE D3FEND · 1 control

MTCS (Singapore) · 1 control

MiFID II / MiFIR · 1 control

  • NAIC-6 Cybersecurity Event Investigation and Notification - Sections 6 and 7
  • NIS2I-6 Access Control, Asset Management, and Physical Security
  • NISTSP115-8 Operational Considerations - Tools, Reporting Templates, ISMS Integration, Annex Material

NIST SP 800-123 · 1 control

  • NISTSP123-3 Authentication, Access Control, and Account Management

NIST SP 800-137 · 1 control

  • NISTSP137-6 Malware, Identity Access, and Network Boundary Monitoring

NIST SP 800-144 · 1 control

  • NISTSP144-1 Cloud Governance, Risk Assessment, and Provider Trust Evaluation

NIST SP 800-145 · 1 control

  • NISTSP145-8 Governance, Reporting, and Stakeholder Education on Cloud Definition

NIST SP 800-146 · 1 control

  • 3.7.1 Key-management policies and procedures are implemented to include generation of strong cryptographic keys used to protect stored account data

NIST SP 800-190 · 1 control

  • NIST190-08 Privileged access in cloud environments
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement

NIST SP 800-61 · 1 control

NIST SP 800-63-4 · 1 control

  • NISTSP63R4-3 Authentication: Authenticator Types, MFA, Phishing-Resistance, and Syncable Authenticators

NIST SP 800-66 · 1 control

  • NISTSP66-6 Technical Safeguards: Access Control, Audit Controls, Integrity, Person Authentication
  • NISTSP82-4 OT Access Control, Identity, Authentication, and Remote Access

NIST SP 800-88 · 1 control

  • NISTSP88-1 Media Sanitization Policy, Roles, and Decision Framework

NIST SP 800-92 · 1 control

  • NISTSP92-4 Log Management: Time Synchronisation, Parsing, Storage, Integrity, Access Control
  • ORANWG11-2 O-RAN Interface Security: E2, A1, O1, O2, Open Fronthaul

OWASP ASVS · 1 control

OWASP MASVS · 1 control

OWASP SAMM · 1 control

  • OWASPSAMM-2 Design: Threat Assessment, Security Requirements, Security Architecture

OWASP Top 10:2025 · 1 control

  • OMANCS-3 Identity and Access Management, Authentication, Privileged Access

OpenSSF Scorecard · 1 control

  • OSSFSC-3 Build, CI/CD Security, Workflow Permissions, Dangerous Patterns

PTES · 1 control

SLSA · 1 control

  • SUPCHAIN-2 Source Integrity - Branch Protection, Code Review, Two-Person Rule
  • CISABD-1 Take Ownership of Customer Security Outcomes
  • SIGSTORE-2 Transparency Log (Rekor) and Verification

South Korea ISMS-P · 1 control

  • TSAPIPE-2 OT/IT Network Segmentation and Access Control
  • UGA-10 Sensitive Personal Data Prohibition

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