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Task Account Audit

Conditions

Review standard and privilege accounts to identify and remediate users with access beyond daily operations.

Standards

In accordance with Principle of Least Permissions, privileged roles and standard roles must to reviewed on regular basis.

Privileged and Standard roles(accounts) should have minimum permissions to allow daily operations.
All privilege accounts should be separate per roles. (i.e. Domain Admins - DA-username, Servers - svc-username, DNS - dns-username)

  • Privilege roles (100% Check monthly)

    • Enterprise administrators
    • Domain Administrators
    • Power Users
    • HelpDesk
    • Service Accounts
    • DNS Administrators
    • Other
  • Standard Roles (20% Check quarterly)

    • All standard role accounts with separate privilege role accounts should be checked montly.

End State

Agency free of standard users accounts with privilege roles.
Separation of privilege roles (DNS, DA, Enterprise, etc)

Notes

Manual Steps

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Dependencies

References

NIST 800-53 AC-6
NIST 800-171 (3.1.5)

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