Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for personnel security

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-1508: Least privilege for privileged access

Privileged access to systems and their resources is limited to only what is required for users and services to undertake their duties.

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This control maps to 5 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 · 2 controls

  • E8-ADMIN-ML3 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML3)
  • E8-ADMIN-ISM-1508 Restrict administrative privileges (ISM-1508): Privileged access to systems, applications and data repositories is limited to only what is required for users and services to undertake their duties

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.2 Privileged access rights

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 · 1 control

  • 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

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.

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