Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for system hardening

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-0974: Multi-factor authentication for unprivileged users

Multi-factor authentication is used to authenticate unprivileged users of systems.

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This control maps to 6 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 · 3 controls

  • E8-MFA-ML2 Multi-Factor Authentication - Maturity Level 2
  • E8-MFA-ML3 Multi-Factor Authentication - Maturity Level 3
  • E8-MFA-ISM-0974 Multi-factor authentication (ISM-0974): Multi-factor authentication is used to authenticate unprivileged users of systems

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-6.4 Require MFA for Remote Network Access

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.5 Secure authentication

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