CISA Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Guidance
CISA ICS: Seven Steps to Effectively Defend ICS

CISA Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Guidance CISA-ICS-7S-5: Manage Authentication

Protect credentials, especially highly privileged accounts: implement multi-factor authentication where possible, reduce privileges to least necessary, enforce secure password policy (length over complexity), ensure unique credentials for all accounts including system/non-interactive, and rotate at least every 90 days. Require separate credentials and trust stores for corporate versus control-network zones and never share Active Directory or other trust stores between them.

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NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

  • NIST-CSF-PR.AA-01 Identities and credentials for authorized users, services, and hardware are managed by the organization

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