NIST CSF: PR.AC-4 Subcategory

From NIST's Cyber Security Framework (version 1):

Access permissions and authorizations are managed, incorporating the principles of least privilege and separation of duties

Cyber Threat Graph Context

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CSF Mapped to SP800-53 Controls

Generated from NIST's SP800-53/CSF Crosswalk mappings.

Node
AC-2: Account Management
AC-24: Access Control Decisions
AC-3: Access Enforcement
AC-5: Separation of Duties
AC-14: Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication
AC-6: Least Privilege
AC-16: Security and Privacy Attributes
AC-1: Policy and Procedures

Related ISO 27001 Controls

Annex A controls from ISO 27001 (2013) which are related to this CSF subcategory, taken from mappings by NIST and additional data from Ofgem.

  • Management of privileged access rights (9.2.3)
    ISO 27001:2013
  • Use of privileged utility programs (9.4.4)
    ISO 27001:2013
  • Access control to program source code (9.4.5)
    ISO 27001:2013
  • Information access restriction (9.4.1)
    ISO 27001:2013
  • Segregation of duties (6.1.2)
    ISO 27001:2013
  • Access to networks and network services (9.1.2)
    ISO 27001:2013

Related ISA/IEC 62443 Controls

Clauses and controls from IEC 62443 (62443-2-1 and 62443-3-3) which are related to this CSF subcategory, taken from mappings by NIST and additional data from Ofgem.

  • Control access to information or systems via role-based access accounts (4.3.3.7.3)
    ISA/IEC 62443-2-1:2009
  • Authorization enforcement (SR 2.1)
    ISA/IEC 62443-3-3:2013

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

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ATT&CK ID Title Associated Tactics
T1087.004 Cloud Account Discovery
T1197 BITS Jobs Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard Discovery
T1552.006 Group Policy Preferences Credential Access
T1556 Modify Authentication Process Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol Exfiltration
T1559.001 Component Object Model Execution
T1569.002 Service Execution Execution
T1213.003 Code Repositories Collection
T1563 Remote Service Session Hijacking Lateral Movement
T1562.006 Indicator Blocking Defense Evasion
T1556.001 Domain Controller Authentication Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1601.001 Patch System Image Defense Evasion
T1606.001 Web Cookies Credential Access
T1562.009 Safe Mode Boot Defense Evasion
T1003.002 Security Account Manager Credential Access
T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution Defense Evasion
T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol Lateral Movement
T1542 Pre-OS Boot Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1601.002 Downgrade System Image Defense Evasion
T1543.004 Launch Daemon Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1601 Modify System Image Defense Evasion
T1003.006 DCSync Credential Access
T1025 Data from Removable Media Collection
T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares Lateral Movement
T1003.003 NTDS Credential Access
T1078.003 Local Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1599 Network Boundary Bridging Defense Evasion
T1569 System Services Execution
T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service Exfiltration
T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification Defense Evasion
T1021.003 Distributed Component Object Model Lateral Movement
T1070.003 Clear Command History Defense Evasion
T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1542.005 TFTP Boot Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1005 Data from Local System Collection
T1547.012 Print Processors Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1562.002 Disable Windows Event Logging Defense Evasion
T1505.005 Terminal Services DLL Persistence
T1606.002 SAML Tokens Credential Access
T1556.006 Multi-Factor Authentication Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs Defense Evasion
T1612 Build Image on Host Defense Evasion
T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure Defense Evasion
T1134.002 Create Process with Token Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol Exfiltration
T1552.002 Credentials in Registry Credential Access
T1562.004 Disable or Modify System Firewall Defense Evasion
T1059.008 Network Device CLI Execution
T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation Execution
T1053.006 Systemd Timers Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1055.008 Ptrace System Calls Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1543 Create or Modify System Process Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1036 Masquerading Defense Evasion
T1556.004 Network Device Authentication Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
T1059.002 AppleScript Execution
T1003.005 Cached Domain Credentials Credential Access
T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material Defense Evasion, Lateral Movement
T1547.004 Winlogon Helper DLL Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1574.008 Path Interception by Search Order Hijacking Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall Defense Evasion
T1098 Account Manipulation Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1134.001 Token Impersonation/Theft Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1036.003 Rename System Utilities Defense Evasion
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
T1021.006 Windows Remote Management Lateral Movement
T1222.001 Windows File and Directory Permissions Modification Defense Evasion
T1070.008 Clear Mailbox Data Defense Evasion
T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs Defense Evasion
T1525 Implant Internal Image Persistence
T1562 Impair Defenses Defense Evasion
T1547.009 Shortcut Modification Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1052.001 Exfiltration over USB Exfiltration
T1556.003 Pluggable Authentication Modules Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1055 Process Injection Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1606 Forge Web Credentials Credential Access
T1053 Scheduled Task/Job Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1003 OS Credential Dumping Credential Access
T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Collection
T1098.005 Device Registration Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1585.003 Cloud Accounts Resource Development
T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
T1495 Firmware Corruption Impact
T1213.001 Confluence Collection
T1036.005 Match Legitimate Name or Location Defense Evasion
T1110.001 Password Guessing Credential Access
T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access Credential Access
T1078 Valid Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1559 Inter-Process Communication Execution
T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel Exfiltration
T1070.009 Clear Persistence Defense Evasion
T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account Exfiltration
T1136.001 Local Account Persistence
T1574.012 COR_PROFILER Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1484 Domain Policy Modification Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1563.002 RDP Hijacking Lateral Movement
T1586.003 Cloud Accounts Resource Development
T1613 Container and Resource Discovery Discovery
T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium Exfiltration
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
T1574.010 Services File Permissions Weakness Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
T1003.001 LSASS Memory Credential Access
T1574.007 Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1558.003 Kerberoasting Credential Access
T1078.001 Default Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1222.002 Linux and Mac File and Directory Permissions Modification Defense Evasion
T1070.007 Clear Network Connection History and Configurations Defense Evasion
T1078.004 Cloud Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1059.005 Visual Basic Execution
T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Credential Access
T1021 Remote Services Lateral Movement
T1558.001 Golden Ticket Credential Access
T1578.003 Delete Cloud Instance Defense Evasion
T1543.003 Windows Service Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1574 Hijack Execution Flow Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
T1609 Container Administration Command Execution
T1053.003 Cron Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1134.003 Make and Impersonate Token Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1528 Steal Application Access Token Credential Access
T1580 Cloud Infrastructure Discovery Discovery
T1218.007 Msiexec Defense Evasion
T1556.007 Hybrid Identity Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1078.002 Domain Accounts Defense Evasion, Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1136.002 Domain Account Persistence
T1546.003 Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1543.002 Systemd Service Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1070 Indicator Removal Defense Evasion
T1547.013 XDG Autostart Entries Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1569.001 Launchctl Execution
T1110.002 Password Cracking Credential Access
T1547.006 Kernel Modules and Extensions Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1053.005 Scheduled Task Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1578.002 Create Cloud Instance Defense Evasion
T1543.001 Launch Agent Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1574.004 Dylib Hijacking Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1542.003 Bootkit Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1550.003 Pass the Ticket Defense Evasion, Lateral Movement
T1552.004 Private Keys Credential Access
T1136 Create Account Persistence
T1574.005 Executable Installer File Permissions Weakness Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1059.001 PowerShell Execution
T1648 Serverless Execution Execution
T1558.004 AS-REP Roasting Credential Access
T1550.002 Pass the Hash Defense Evasion, Lateral Movement
T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol Exfiltration
T1053.002 At Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1610 Deploy Container Defense Evasion, Execution
T1110.003 Password Spraying Credential Access
T1110.004 Credential Stuffing Credential Access
T1098.002 Additional Email Delegate Permissions Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1621 Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation Credential Access
T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools Defense Evasion
T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1072 Software Deployment Tools Execution, Lateral Movement
T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
T1136.003 Cloud Account Persistence
T1558 Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets Credential Access
T1489 Service Stop Impact
T1213.002 Sharepoint Collection
T1505.002 Transport Agent Persistence
T1053.007 Container Orchestration Job Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1059.003 Windows Command Shell Execution
T1574.009 Path Interception by Unquoted Path Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1578.001 Create Snapshot Defense Evasion
T1619 Cloud Storage Object Discovery Discovery
T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
T1003.007 Proc Filesystem Credential Access
T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
T1548.002 Bypass User Account Control Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1056.003 Web Portal Capture Collection, Credential Access
T1059.006 Python Execution
T1599.001 Network Address Translation Traversal Defense Evasion
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
T1556.005 Reversible Encryption Credential Access, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1542.001 System Firmware Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1070.002 Clear Linux or Mac System Logs Defense Evasion
T1558.002 Silver Ticket Credential Access
T1213 Data from Information Repositories Collection
T1021.005 VNC Lateral Movement
T1611 Escape to Host Privilege Escalation
T1505 Server Software Component Persistence
T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1552.007 Container API Credential Access
T1548.003 Sudo and Sudo Caching Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1134 Access Token Manipulation Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1021.004 SSH Lateral Movement
T1563.001 SSH Hijacking Lateral Movement
T1622 Debugger Evasion Defense Evasion, Discovery
T1114.002 Remote Email Collection Collection
T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle Collection, Credential Access
T1205.001 Port Knocking Command and Control, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1647 Plist File Modification Defense Evasion
T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API Credential Access
T1491.001 Internal Defacement Impact
T1491.002 External Defacement Impact
T1037.005 Startup Items Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1218.002 Control Panel Defense Evasion
T1037.002 Login Hook Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1037.004 RC Scripts Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1546.004 Unix Shell Configuration Modification Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1134.005 SID-History Injection Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1561.001 Disk Content Wipe Impact
T1602 Data from Configuration Repository Collection
T1037.003 Network Logon Script Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1498.001 Direct Network Flood Impact
T1133 External Remote Services Initial Access, Persistence
T1602.002 Network Device Configuration Dump Collection
T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy Command and Control
T1564.004 NTFS File Attributes Defense Evasion
T1055.009 Proc Memory Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1561.002 Disk Structure Wipe Impact
T1485 Data Destruction Impact
T1037 Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1114 Email Collection Collection
T1565.003 Runtime Data Manipulation Impact
T1490 Inhibit System Recovery Impact
T1546.013 PowerShell Profile Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1205 Traffic Signaling Command and Control, Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1071.004 DNS Command and Control
T1048.001 Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol Exfiltration
T1542.004 ROMMONkit Defense Evasion, Persistence
T1200 Hardware Additions Initial Access
T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol Command and Control
T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood Impact
T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact
T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer Lateral Movement
T1187 Forced Authentication Credential Access
T1602.001 SNMP (MIB Dump) Collection
T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1090 Proxy Command and Control
T1499.001 OS Exhaustion Flood Impact
T1572 Protocol Tunneling Command and Control
T1199 Trusted Relationship Initial Access
T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
T1561 Disk Wipe Impact
T1498 Network Denial of Service Impact
T1553.003 SIP and Trust Provider Hijacking Defense Evasion
T1219 Remote Access Software Command and Control
T1498.002 Reflection Amplification Impact
T1565 Data Manipulation Impact
T1218.012 Verclsid Defense Evasion
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation Impact
T1557.002 ARP Cache Poisoning Collection, Credential Access
T1091 Replication Through Removable Media Initial Access, Lateral Movement
T1080 Taint Shared Content Lateral Movement
T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service Impact
T1557.001 LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay Collection, Credential Access
T1491 Defacement Impact
T1547.007 Re-opened Applications Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1505.004 IIS Components Persistence
T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact Impact
T1557.003 DHCP Spoofing Collection, Credential Access
T1547.003 Time Providers Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1137.002 Office Test Persistence
T1546.011 Application Shimming Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1137.005 Outlook Rules Persistence
T1553 Subvert Trust Controls Defense Evasion
T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion Defense Evasion
T1112 Modify Registry Defense Evasion
T1137.001 Office Template Macros Persistence
T1055.004 Asynchronous Procedure Call Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1055.002 Portable Executable Injection Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1546.016 Installer Packages Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1055.005 Thread Local Storage Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1055.014 VDSO Hijacking Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1055.013 Process Doppelgänging Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1137.006 Add-ins Persistence
T1137.004 Outlook Home Page Persistence
T1055.012 Process Hollowing Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1106 Native API Execution
T1559.002 Dynamic Data Exchange Execution
T1189 Drive-by Compromise Initial Access
T1553.006 Code Signing Policy Modification Defense Evasion
T1176 Browser Extensions Persistence
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
T1137 Office Application Startup Persistence
T1137.003 Outlook Forms Persistence
T1055.003 Thread Execution Hijacking Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1574.011 Services Registry Permissions Weakness Defense Evasion, Persistence, Privilege Escalation
T1055.001 Dynamic-link Library Injection Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1055.011 Extra Window Memory Injection Defense Evasion, Privilege Escalation
T1119 Automated Collection Collection
T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation Impact
T1040 Network Sniffing Credential Access, Discovery
T1114.003 Email Forwarding Rule Collection
T1550.001 Application Access Token Defense Evasion, Lateral Movement
T1114.001 Local Email Collection Collection
T1020.001 Traffic Duplication Exfiltration

CSF Mapped to the NCSC CAF

Cyber Assessment Framework mappings generated from UK Cabinet Office data.

Control ID Name Description
B2.d Identity and Access Management (IdAM) You closely manage and maintain identity and access control for users, devices and systems accessing the networks and information systems supporting the essential function.
B2.a Identity Verification, Authentication and Authorisation You robustly verify, authenticate and authorise access to the networks and information systems supporting your essential function.
B2.b Device Management You fully know and have trust in the devices that are used to access your networks, information systems and data that support your essential function.
B2.c Privileged User Management You closely manage privileged user access to networks and information systems supporting the essential function.