Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• AC-06(08) [Assignment: software] is prevented from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Access control policy
• procedures addressing least privilege
• list of software that should not execute at higher privilege levels than users executing software
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• system audit records
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with responsibilities for defining least privileges necessary to accomplish specified tasks
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• system/network administrators
• system developers

Test

• Mechanisms implementing least privilege functions for software execution

Saincheisteanna nasctha

• NIST -

  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final