CIS Controls v8
CIS Control 5: Account Management

CIS Controls v8 CIS-5.5: Establish and Maintain an Inventory of Service Accounts

Keep a register of service accounts that records, at a minimum, the owning department, the date of review and the purpose. Review service accounts on a regular cycle of at least once a quarter to confirm that every active one is authorised.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 39 controls across 17 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

SOC 2 · 6 controls

  • SOC2-CC4.1 CC4.1 Ongoing and separate evaluations of control (COSO principle 16)
  • SOC2-CC5.1 CC5.1 Selecting control activities that mitigate risk (COSO principle 10)
  • SOC2-CC5.2 CC5.2 General controls over technology (COSO principle 11)
  • SOC2-CC6.1 CC6.1 Logical access security over protected information assets
  • SOC2-CC6.2 CC6.2 Registering and authorising users before issuing credentials
  • SOC2-CC6.3 CC6.3 Role-based access, least privilege and segregation of duties

PCI DSS 4.0 · 5 controls

  • 12.5.1 12.5.1 Inventory of in-scope system components
  • 8.2.2 8.2.2 Shared and generic IDs only by exception
  • 7.2.4 7.2.4 User accounts and privileges reviewed every six months
  • 7.2.5 7.2.5 Application and system accounts least privilege
  • 8.6.1 8.6.1 Interactive use of system accounts controlled

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 4 controls

FedRAMP High · 3 controls

  • AC-2 Account Management
  • AC-2(9) Restrictions on Use of Shared and Group Accounts
  • IA-4 Identifier Management

FedRAMP Moderate · 3 controls

  • AC-2 Account Management
  • AC-2(9) Restrictions on Use of Shared and Group Accounts
  • IA-4 Identifier Management

ISO 27001:2022 · 3 controls

  • 5.16 Identity management
  • 5.18 Access rights
  • 5.9 Inventory of information and other associated assets

ISO 27701:2019 · 2 controls

  • 6.5.1 Responsibility for assets
  • 6.6.2 User access management
  • NIST-CSF-ID.AM-02 Inventories of software, services, and systems 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 SP 800-171 Rev 3 · 2 controls

  • ANSSI-HYG-05 Maintain an Exhaustive Inventory of Privileged Accounts
  • IM-3 Manage application identities securely and automatically

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-IDM-02 Granting and change of user accounts and access rights

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.16 Identity management

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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