UK Cyber Essentials
Secure Configuration

UK Cyber Essentials CE-SC.8: Process for Compromised Passwords

Have a process to change passwords promptly when the user knows or suspects the password or account has been compromised.

Maintained by Gerard BlokdykVerified against the published standard Control text last updated

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 29 controls across 18 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-2(13) Disable Accounts for High-Risk Individuals
  • IA-5 Authenticator Management
  • IA-5(6) Protection of Authenticators
  • IR-4 Incident Handling

FedRAMP Moderate · 4 controls

  • AC-2(13) Disable Accounts for High-Risk Individuals
  • IA-5 Authenticator Management
  • IA-5(6) Protection of Authenticators
  • IR-4 Incident Handling
  • ASBv3-IR-1 Preparation - update incident response plan and handling process
  • ASBv3-LT-2 Enable threat detection for identity and access management

C5 (Germany) · 2 controls

  • C5-IDM-08 Confidentiality of authentication information
  • C5-SIM-04 Duty of the users to report security incidents to a central body

HIPAA Security Rule · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 2 controls

  • ANSSI-HYG-40 Define a Security Incident Management Procedure
  • ASD37-28 Continuous incident detection and response (Excellent)

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • CIS-17.3 Establish and Maintain an Enterprise Process for Reporting Incidents

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

ISO 27001:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.17 Authentication information

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 5.17 Authentication information

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 8.3.8 8.3.8 Authentication policies communicated to users

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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