UK Cyber Essentials
Secure Configuration

UK Cyber Essentials CE-SC.7: Educate Users on Strong Passwords

Educate users to avoid common, predictable, or compromised passwords and on the importance of unique passwords per account.

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 36 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 · 3 controls

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
  • IA-5(1) Password-Based Authentication
  • PL-4 Rules of Behavior

FedRAMP Moderate · 3 controls

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
  • IA-5(1) Password-Based Authentication
  • PL-4 Rules of Behavior

ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents · 2 controls

C5 (Germany) · 2 controls

  • C5-HR-03 Security training and awareness programme
  • C5-PSS-07 Confidentiality of Authentication Information

CIS Controls v8 · 2 controls

  • CIS-14.3 Train Workforce Members on Authentication Best Practices
  • CIS-5.2 Use Unique Passwords

Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1 · 2 controls

HIPAA Security Rule · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.17 Authentication information
  • 6.3 Information security awareness, education and training

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.17 Authentication information
  • 6.3 Information security awareness, education and training

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 LOW · 2 controls

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
  • PL-4 Rules of Behavior

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 MODERATE · 2 controls

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
  • PL-4 Rules of Behavior

NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5.1 HIGH · 2 controls

  • AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
  • PL-4 Rules of Behavior

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 2 controls

PCI DSS 4.0 · 2 controls

  • 12.6.3 Security awareness training delivered
  • 8.3.8 Authentication policy communicated

ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0) · 1 control

  • ANSSI-HYG-02 Raise User Awareness of Basic Security Practice

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 · 1 control

  • NIST-CSF-PR.AT-01 Personnel are provided with awareness and training so that they possess the knowledge and skills to perform general tasks with cybersecurity risks in mind

NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 · 1 control

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.

Other controls in Secure Configuration

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

UK Cyber Essentials CE-SC.7 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 gapsIf you hold NIST SP 800-171 Rev 375% covered · 9 gapsIf you hold Azure Security Benchmark55.6% covered · 16 gapsIf you hold ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0)50% covered · 18 gapsIf you hold ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents50% covered · 18 gapsIf 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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The graph holds this control, the 36 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.

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