CIS Controls v8 CIS-5.1: Establish and Maintain an Inventory of Accounts
Keep a register of every account the enterprise manages, covering both user and administrator accounts. At a minimum each entry should hold the person's name, the username, the start and end dates, and the department. Confirm that every active account is authorised on a regular cycle of at least once a quarter.
Maintained by Gerard Blokdyk·Verified against the published standard ·Control text last updated
What else in your programme already covers this
This control maps to 63 controls across 23 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.
NIST-CSF-ID.AM-01 Inventories of hardware managed by the organization are maintained
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
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