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Account Management

What is Account Management?

The processes for creating, modifying, monitoring, and removing user accounts throughout their lifecycle.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as account management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on account management

Requirements naming account management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

GLI-33 Player Account Management (PAM) + KYC + AML + payments. PAM REQUIREMENTS: (a) account registration with identity verification + age verification (18+ or 21+ depending on state) + jurisdictional eligibility;

GLI33-PAM-KYC-AML-Payments · GLI-33 Player Account Management, KYC, AML, Payment Processing and Account Lifecycle
FedRAMP High2 controls

Automatically disable temporary and emergency accounts within FedRAMP-defined timeframe (no longer than 24 hours).

AC-2(2) · Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management

Automatically disable temporary and emergency accounts within FedRAMP-defined timeframe (no longer than 24 hours).

AC-2(2) · Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
IEC 624432 controls

Asset owner manages IACS user and service accounts with least privilege, individual accountability where feasible, role-based access, periodic review and removal upon role change or departure.

62443-2-1-AC · Account Management and Access Control for IACS

Automatically disable temporary and emergency accounts within FedRAMP-defined timeframe (no longer than 24 hours).

AC-2(2) · Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management

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

What is Account Management?
The processes for creating, modifying, monitoring, and removing user accounts throughout their lifecycle.
Why is Account Management important for compliance?
Account Management is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding account management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Account Management?
Account Management appears in the requirement text of GLI-33 - Gaming Laboratories International Event Wagering Systems, FedRAMP High, FedRAMP Moderate, IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 MODERATE. Across these standards we have identified 13 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Account Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how account management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Account Management applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.