C5 (Germany)
C5: Product Safety and Security

C5 (Germany) C5-PSS-08: Roles and Rights Concept

Give cloud users a roles and rights concept for managing access, describing the rights profiles available for each service function so that permissions can follow least privilege and need to know, and operational duties can be kept separate from controlling ones.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 26 controls across 20 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

CMMC 2.0 · 2 controls

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • AC-6 Least Privilege

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • ASBv3-PA-7 Follow just enough administration (least privilege) principle

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control
  • CCM-IAM-01 Identity and Access Management Policy and Procedures

GDPR · 1 control

HIPAA Security Rule · 1 control

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

  • 6.6.2 User access management

NIS2 Directive · 1 control

  • Art.21.2.i Human resources security, access control policies and asset management
  • 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

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 7.2.1 7.2.1 Access control model defined

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC6.3 CC6.3 Role-based access, least privilege and segregation 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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