+AC-02(13) Disable Accounts for High-risk Individuals

AC-02(13) Disable Accounts for High-risk Individuals

Control

Disable accounts of individuals within [Assignement: time period] of discovery of [Assignement: significant risks].

Discussion

Users who pose a significant security and/or privacy risk include individuals for whom reliable evidence indicates either the intention to use authorized access to systems to cause harm or through whom adversaries will cause harm. Such harm includes adverse impacts to organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, or the Nation. Close coordination among system administrators, legal staff, human resource managers, and authorizing officials is essential when disabling system accounts for high-risk individuals.

Assessment Objective

accounts of individuals are disabled within [Assignement: time period] of discovery of [Assignement: significant risks].

Assessment Method

Examine

Access control policy procedures addressing account management system design documentation system configuration settings and associated documentation system-generated list of disabled accounts list of user activities posing significant organizational risk system audit records system security plan other relevant documents or records

Interview

Organizational personnel with account management responsibilities system/network administrators organizational personnel with information security responsibilities

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