Account Management
What is Account Management?
The processes for creating, modifying, monitoring, and removing user accounts throughout their lifecycle.
Terms that appear alongside account management
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as account management. The number is how many controls name both.
- access control 8 shared controls
- audit 6 shared controls
- authentication 5 shared controls
- nist 4 shared controls
- least privilege 3 shared controls
- access management 3 shared controls
- integrity 3 shared controls
- compliance 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern account management
What the standards actually require on account management
Requirements naming account management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Implement [Assignment: organization-defined dynamic privilege management capabilities].
NIST800-AC-2(6) · AC-2(6) Account Management | Dynamic Privilege Management →Audit account creation, modification, enabling, disabling and removal automatically.
fbi-cjis-security-policy::AC-2(4) · AC-2(4) Account Management | Automated Audit Actions →Automatically audit account creation, modification, enabling, disabling, and removal actions.
nist-sp-800-53-revision-5-1-high::AC-2(4) · AC-2(4) Account Management | Automated Audit Actions →Automatically audit account creation, modification, enabling, disabling, and removal actions.
nist-sp-800-53-rev-5-moderate::AC-2(4) · AC-2(4) Account Management | Automated Audit Actions →A process shall be employed to create user documentation describing the accounts the product supports and how to manage them: default accounts, their intended use, how to change and remove them, and the roles and privileges available.
iec-62443::SG-6 · Account management guidelines →Automatically disable temporary and emergency accounts within FedRAMP-defined timeframe (no longer than 24 hours).
AC-2(2) · Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management →Questions people ask about account management
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