Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for personnel security

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-0445: Dedicated privileged user accounts

What does ISM-0445 require?

Privileged users are assigned a dedicated privileged user account to be used solely for duties requiring privileged access.

Maintained by Gerard BlokdykVerified against the published standard Control text last updated

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 8 controls across 4 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ACSC Essential Eight · 4 controls

  • E8-ADMIN-ML1 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML1)
  • E8-ADMIN-ML2 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML2)
  • E8-ADMIN-ML3 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML3)
  • E8-ADMIN-ISM-0445 Restrict administrative privileges (ISM-0445): Privileged users are assigned a dedicated privileged user account to be used solely for duties requiring privileged access

New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) · 2 controls

  • 16.1.27.C.02 16.1.27.C.02 No shared credentials for privileged or administrator accounts
  • 16.3.5.C.01 16.3.5.C.01 Controlled, individual and minimal use of privileged accounts

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-5.4 Restrict Administrator Privileges to Dedicated Administrator Accounts

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.2 Privileged access rights

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 Guidelines for personnel security

Query this from an agent

The graph holds this control, the 8 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.

MCP endpointAll Australian Information Security Manual controls