UK Cyber Essentials CE-AC.5: Separate Admin Accounts for Administrative Activities

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 45 controls across 19 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

FedRAMP High · 4 controls

AC-5 Separation of Duties
AC-6 Least Privilege
AC-6(10) Prohibit Non-Privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
AC-6(2) Non-Privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions

FedRAMP Moderate · 4 controls

AC-5 Separation of Duties
AC-6 Least Privilege
AC-6(10) Prohibit Non-Privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
AC-6(2) Non-Privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions

ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0) · 3 controls

ANSSI-HYG-08 Identify Each Person by Name and Separate User and Administrator Roles
ANSSI-HYG-27 Prohibit Internet Access from Administration Workstations and Servers
ANSSI-HYG-29 Limit Administration Rights on Workstations to Operational Need

Azure Security Benchmark · 3 controls

ASBv3-PA-6 Use privileged access workstations
ASBv3-PA-7 Follow just enough administration (least privilege) principle
PA-1 Separate and limit highly privileged/administrative users

C5 (Germany) · 3 controls

C5-COS-05 Networks for administration
C5-IDM-06 Privileged access rights
C5-OIS-04 Segregation of Duties

CMMC 2.0 · 3 controls

AC.L2-3.1.2 Transaction & Function Control
AC.L2-3.1.6 Non-Privileged Account Use
AC.L2-3.1.7 Privileged Functions

Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1 · 3 controls

CCM-CCC-04 Unauthorized Change Protection
CCM-IAM-05 Least Privilege
CCM-IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 3 controls

NIST800-AC-5 AC-5 Separation of Duties
NIST800-AC-6 AC-6 Least Privilege
NIST800-CM-5 CM-5 Access Restrictions for Change

ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents · 2 controls

ASD37-08 Deny direct internet connectivity (Excellent)
ASD37-18 Restrict administrative privileges (Essential)

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar · 2 controls

SEC03-BP02 Grant least privilege access
SEC06-BP03 Reduce manual management and interactive access

CIS Controls v8 · 2 controls

CIS-12.8 Establish and Maintain Dedicated Computing Resources for All Administrative Work
CIS-5.4 Restrict Administrator Privileges to Dedicated Administrator Accounts

HIPAA Security Rule · 2 controls

164.308(a)(3)(ii)(A) Authorization and Supervision (Addressable)
164.312(a)(1) Access Control (Standard)

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

8.18 Use of privileged utility programs
8.2 Privileged access rights

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

8.18 Use of privileged utility programs
8.2 Privileged access rights

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 · 2 controls

03.01.06 Least Privilege - Privileged Accounts
03.01.07 Least Privilege - Privileged Functions

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 2 controls

164.308(a)(3)(ii)(A) Authorization and Supervision (Addressable)
164.312(a)(1) Access Control (Standard)

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

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 · 1 control

161R1-AC-6 Least Privilege

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.

You are reading one control. How much of UK Cyber Essentials have you already done?

UK Cyber Essentials CE-AC.5 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of UK Cyber Essentials your existing evidence covers. Hold FedRAMP Moderate and 29 of 36 UK Cyber Essentials controls already carry evidence.

If you hold FedRAMP Moderate80.6% covered · 7 gaps If you hold NIST SP 800-171 Rev 375% covered · 9 gaps If you hold Azure Security Benchmark55.6% covered · 16 gaps If you hold ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0)50% covered · 18 gaps If you hold ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents50% covered · 18 gaps If you hold C5 (Germany)50% covered · 18 gaps

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 0 were rejected on the FedRAMP Moderate pair alone.

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