id: "AC-06(02)" title: "Non-privileged Access for Nonsecurity Functions" family: "AC" family_name: "Access Control" sort_id: "ac-06.02" priority: "P1" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "AC-06" enhancement: True
Statement
Require that users of system accounts (or roles) with access to {{ insert: param, ac-06.02_odp }} use non-privileged accounts or roles, when accessing nonsecurity functions.
Guidance
Requiring the use of non-privileged accounts when accessing nonsecurity functions limits exposure when operating from within privileged accounts or roles. The inclusion of roles addresses situations where organizations implement access control policies, such as role-based access control, and where a change of role provides the same degree of assurance in the change of access authorizations for the user and the processes acting on behalf of the user as would be provided by a change between a privileged and non-privileged account.
Assessment Objective
users of system accounts (or roles) with access to {{ insert: param, ac-06.02_odp }} are required to use non-privileged accounts or roles when accessing non-security functions.
Access control policy
procedures addressing least privilege
list of system-generated security functions or security-relevant information assigned to system accounts or roles
system configuration settings and associated documentation
system audit records
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with responsibilities for defining least privileges necessary to accomplish specified tasks
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
system/network administrators
Mechanisms implementing least privilege functions