CSA CCM Identity and Access Management Capability Group

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) domain features controls for helping both CSPs and CSCs adhering to security best practices in managing identities and access to security functions and data in the cloud environment. Best practices such as the principle of least privilege, segregation of duties, multi-factor authentication, role based and attribute based access control are central to managing access to cloud resources.

All Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1491.002 External Defacement
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1485 Data Destruction
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1531 Account Access Removal
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496.002 Bandwidth Hijacking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496.001 Compute Hijacking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496.004 Cloud Service Hijacking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496 Resource Hijacking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1074.002 Remote Data Staging
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1535 Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1564 Hide Artifacts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1070.008 Clear Mailbox Data
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.005 Device Registration
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.002 Additional Email Delegate Permissions
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1651 Cloud Administration Command
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1204.003 Malicious Image
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1610 Deploy Container
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.006 Additional Container Cluster Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.004 Revert Cloud Instance
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.002 Create Cloud Instance
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.001 Create Snapshot
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.003 Delete Cloud Instance
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1602 Data from Configuration Repository
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1552.007 Container API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.005 Modify Cloud Compute Configurations
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1080 Taint Shared Content
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1671 Cloud Application Integration
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110 Brute Force
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110.003 Password Spraying
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110.001 Password Guessing
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110.002 Password Cracking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1552.001 Credentials In Files
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555.005 Password Managers
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1133 External Remote Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.005 Device Registration
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.006 Additional Container Cluster Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078.002 Domain Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1564.002 Hidden Users
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1036.010 Masquerade Account Name
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1036 Masquerading
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1585.003 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1087.004 Cloud Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1586.003 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, administrators should perform automated reviews of all cloud and container accounts to ensure that they are necessary and that the permissions granted to them are appropriate.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1552.004 Private Keys
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, ensure only authorized keys are allowed access to critical resources and perform automated reviews of access lists regularly.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1528 Steal Application Access Token
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, administrators should perform automated reviews of all cloud and container accounts to ensure that they are necessary and that the permissions granted to them are appropriate.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, administrators should perform an automated review of all access lists and the permissions they have been granted to access web applications and services. This should be done extensively on all resources in order to establish a baseline, followed up on with periodic audits of new or updated resources. Suspicious accounts/credentials should be investigated and removed.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, conduct automated permissions reviewing on cloud storage to ensure proper permissions are set to deny open or unprivileged access to resources.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1505 Server Software Component
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021.004 SSH
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1484.001 Group Policy Modification
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213.004 Customer Relationship Management Software
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213.002 Sharepoint
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213.001 Confluence
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1555.005 Password Managers
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. Adversaries may abuse permission configurations that allow them to gain temporarily elevated access to cloud resources. Many cloud environments allow administrators to grant user or service accounts permission to request just-in-time access to roles, impersonate other accounts, or pass roles onto resources and services. In terms of mitigations, limit the privileges of cloud accounts to assume, create, or impersonate additional roles, policies, and permissions to only those required. Where just-in-time access is enabled, consider requiring manual approval for temporary elevation of privileges.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1098.006 Additional Container Cluster Roles
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. An adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled user or service account to maintain persistent access to a container orchestration system. In terms of mitigation, having multi-level approval chains for creating additional roles or ensuring that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to add permissions to accounts or update IAM policies could help catch the use of this technique.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. An adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant. For example, adversaries may update IAM policies in cloud-based environments or add a new global administrator in Office 365 environments. In terms of mitigation, having multi-level approval chains for creating additional roles or ensuring that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to add permissions to accounts or update IAM policies could help catch the use of this technique.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. Adversaries may abuse permission configurations that allow them to gain temporarily elevated access to cloud resources. Many cloud environments allow administrators to grant user or service accounts permission to request just-in-time access to roles, impersonate other accounts, or pass roles onto resources and services. In terms of mitigations, limit the privileges of cloud accounts to assume, create, or impersonate additional roles, policies, and permissions to only those required. Where just-in-time access is enabled, consider requiring manual approval for temporary elevation of privileges.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. Many organizations maintain hybrid user and device identities that are shared between on-premises and cloud-based environments. For this technique, adversaries may be able to modify the hybrid identity authentication process from the cloud. In terms of mitigation, reviewing the hybrid identity solution in use for any discrepancies could aid with thwarting the use of this technique.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials and identity to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the environment. For example, adversaries may add credentials for Service Principals and Applications in addition to existing legitimate credentials in Azure / Entra ID. In terms of mitigation, a dynamic inventory of permitted cloud identities and roles may aid in flagging the creation or addition of any unauthorized identities.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. Valid accounts in cloud environments may allow adversaries to perform actions to achieve Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. A dynamic inventory of permitted cloud identities may aid in flagging the creation of any unauthorized identities.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. In relation to this technique, default accounts may be created on a system after initial setup by connecting or integrating it with another application. Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a default account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. A dynamic inventory of permitted identities may aid in flagging the creation of any unauthorized identities.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021.004 SSH
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1213.002 Sharepoint
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1213.001 Confluence
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1555.005 Password Managers
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to modify cloud bucket lifecycle policies (e.g., PutLifecycleConfiguration in AWS) to only those accounts that require it. In AWS environments, consider using Service Control policies to limit the use of the PutBucketLifecycle API call.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries has been observed using this technique to delete backup files and disable any restoration capabilties. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit the user accounts that have access to backups to only those required. For example, in AWS environments, consider using Service Control Policies to restrict API calls to delete backups, snapshots, and images.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries has been observed using this technique to directly download cloud user data such as OneDrive files. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, Configure user permissions groups and roles for access to cloud storage. Implement strict Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls to prevent access to storage solutions except for the applications, users, and services that require access. Ensure that temporary access tokens are issued rather than permanent credentials, especially when access is being granted to entities outside of the internal security boundary.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries has been observed using this technique to directly download cloud user data such as OneDrive files. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, Configure user permissions groups and roles for access to cloud storage. Implement strict Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls to prevent access to storage solutions except for the applications, users, and services that require access. Ensure that temporary access tokens are issued rather than permanent credentials, especially when access is being granted to entities outside of the internal security boundary.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries may utilize these cloud native methods to directly access virtual infrastructure and pivot through an environment. These connections typically provide direct console access to the VM rather than the execution of scripts (i.e., Cloud Administration Command). For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit which users are allowed to access compute infrastructure via cloud native methods. If direct virtual machine connections are not required for administrative use or certain users, disable these connection types where feasible.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries may add, delete, or otherwise modify resource groups within an IaaS hierarchy. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to add, delete, or modify resource groups to only those required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.002 Create Cloud Instance
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversary's have been observed using this technique to create new virtual machines for defense evasion within the target's cloud environment after leveraging credential access to cloud assets. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies. Additionally, enforce user permissions to ensure only the expected users have the capability to create new instances.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.001 Create Snapshot
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversary's have been observed using this technique to create snapshots of EBS volumes and RDS instances for execution and defense evasion. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.003 Delete Cloud Instance
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversary's have been observed using this technique to delete the victime's systems and resources in the cloud to trigger the organization's incident and crisis response process. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.005 Modify Cloud Compute Configurations
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to request quotas adjustments or modify tenant-level compute setting to only those required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been known to modify cloud compute infrastructure for evading defenses. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for creating, deleting, and otherwise altering compute components in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been known to introduce new firewall rules or policies to allow access into a victim cloud environment and/or disable cloud logs to evade defenses. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, configure and ensure least privilege principles are applied to Identity and Access Management (IAM) security policies to prevent only necessary users to modify certain security mechanisms in place.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been known to introduce new firewall rules or policies to allow access into a victim cloud environment and/or move laterally from the cloud control plane to the data plane. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, configure and ensure least privilege principles are applied to Identity and Access Management (IAM) security policies to prevent only necessary users to modify firewall rules or policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, configure default account policy to enable logging. Manage policies to ensure only necessary users have permissions to make changes to logging policies. Adversaries have been known to disable or otherwise restrict various AWS logging services, such as AWS CloudTrail and VPC flow logs
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit the privileges of cloud accounts to assume, create, or impersonate additional roles, policies, and permissions to only those required. Where just-in-time access is enabled, consider requiring manual approval for temporary elevation of privileges.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation for cloud IaaS, ensure that only users who explicitly require the permissions to update instance metadata or configurations can do so.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permission to add access keys to accounts. For example, in AWS environments, prohibit users from calling the sts:GetFederationToken API unless explicitly required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to add permissions to accounts or update IAM policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to modify accounts or account-related policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1556.006 Multi-Factor Authentication
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that proper cloud policies are implemented to dictate the the secure enrollment and deactivation of authentication mechanisms, such as MFA, for user accounts.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that proper cloud policies are implemented to dictate the the secure enrollment and deactivation of authentication mechanisms, such as MFA, for user accounts.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to modify conditional access policies to only those required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, limit the ability for user accounts to create additional accounts.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, adversaries may gain access to and use centralized software suites installed within an enterprise to execute commands and move laterally through the network. In terms of mitigation, ensure that any accounts used by third-party providers to access these systems are traceable to the third-party and are not used throughout the network or used by other third-party providers in the same environment. Ensure there are regular reviews of accounts provisioned to these systems to verify continued business need, and ensure there is governance to trace de-provisioning of access that is no longer required. Ensure proper system and access isolation for critical network systems through use of account privilege separation.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, adversaries may abuse serverless computing, integration, and automation services to execute arbitrary code in cloud environments. Remove permissions to create, modify, or run serverless resources from users that do not explicitly require them. Where possible, consider restricting access to and use of serverless functions. For examples, conditional access policies can be applied to users attempting to abuse these resources in various ways as a means of executing arbitrary commands.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, properly manage accounts and permissions used by parties in trusted relationships to minimize potential abuse by the party and if the party is compromised by an adversary. In Office 365 environments, partner relationships and roles can be viewed under the "Partner Relationships" page
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, adversaries have been known to add a federated identity provider to the victim’s SSO tenant and activates automatic account linking. In terms of mitigation, using the principal of least privilege and protect administrative access to domain trusts and identity tenants. Additionally, in cloud environments, limit permissions to create new identity providers to only those accounts that require them. In AWS environments, consider using Service Control policies to limit the use of API calls such as CreateSAMLProvider or CreateOpenIDConnectProvider.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been observed leveraging this type of technique for collecting data from misconfigured cloud-hosted databases. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, enforce the principle of least-privilege. Consider implementing access control mechanisms that include both authentication and authorization.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may create a cloud account to maintain access to victim systems. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for new user and privileged accounts. For instance, require multi-factor authentication to register devices in Entra ID. Configure multi-factor authentication systems to disallow enrolling new devices for inactive accounts. When first enrolling MFA, use conditional access policies to restrict device enrollment to trusted locations or devices, and consider using temporary access passes as an initial MFA solution to enroll a device.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, an adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts. Implementing MFA across all critical systems and services ensures robust protection against account takeover and unauthorized access.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the environment. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts. Consider enforcing multi-factor authentication for the CreateKeyPair and ImportKeyPair API calls through IAM policies
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, in order to create or manipulate accounts, the adversary must already have sufficient permissions on systems or the domain. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that cloud accounts, particularly privileged accounts, have complex, unique passwords across all systems on the network. Passwords and access keys should be rotated regularly. This limits the amount of time credentials can be used to access resources if a credential is compromised without your knowledge. Cloud service providers may track access key age to help audit and identify keys that may need to be rotated.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may modify or otherwise backdoor cloud authentication processes that are tied to on-premises user identities in order to bypass typical authentication mechanisms, access credentials, and enable persistent access to accounts. In. terms of mitigation, integrating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of organizational policy can greatly reduce the risk of an adversary gaining control of valid credentials that may be used for additional tactics.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1621 Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may attempt to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms and gain access to accounts by generating MFA requests sent to users. In terms of mitigation, implementing more secure 2FA/MFA mechanisms in replacement of simple push or one-click 2FA/MFA options, or enabling account restrictions to prevent login attempts, and the subsequent 2FA/MFA service requests, from being initiated from suspicious locations or when the source of the login attempts do not match the location of the 2FA/MFA smart device, or using conditional access policies to block logins from non-compliant devices or from outside defined organization IP ranges can limit the abuse of this technique to circumvent account compromise.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556.006 Multi-Factor Authentication
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may disable or modify multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms to enable persistent access to compromised accounts. In terms of mitigation, ensure that proper policies are implemented to dictate the secure enrollment and deactivation of MFA for user accounts.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may modify authentication mechanisms and processes to access user credentials or enable otherwise unwarranted access to accounts. In terms of mitigation, integrating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of organizational policy can greatly reduce the risk of an adversary gaining control of valid credentials, then attempting to modify the authentication process that may be used for additional tactics such as initial access, lateral movement, and collecting information. MFA can also be used to restrict access to cloud resources and APIs.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, secrets managers support the secure centralized management of passwords, API keys, and other credential material. Where secrets managers are in use, cloud services can dynamically acquire credentials via API requests rather than accessing secrets insecurely stored in plain text files or environment variables. In terms of mitigation, limit the number of cloud accounts and services with permission to query the secrets manager to only those required. Ensure that accounts and services with permissions to query the secrets manager only have access to the secrets they require.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.003 Password Spraying
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.004 Credential Stuffing
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.002 Password Cracking
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.001 Password Guessing
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110 Brute Force
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may breach or otherwise leverage organizations who have access to intended victims. Access through trusted third party relationship abuses an existing connection that may not be protected or receives less scrutiny than standard mechanisms of gaining access to a network. In terms of mitigation, eequire MFA for all delegated administrator accounts. Properly manage accounts and password policies, including MFA requirements, used by parties in trusted relationships to minimize potential abuse by the party if the party is compromised by an adversary.

Capabilities

Capability ID Capability Name Number of Mappings
IAM-03 Identity Inventory 4
IAM-15 Passwords Management 15
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles 15
IAM-05 Least Privilege 28
IAM-04 Separation of Duties 4
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users 11
IAM-08 User Access Review 5
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles 14
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures 16
IAM-14 Strong Authentication 19
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles 15
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms 62
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning 24
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation 17