AC-6 - Least Privilege [FSv1.1]

Control requirements

AC-6 - 0

The organization employs the principle of least privilege, allowing only authorized accesses for users (or processes acting on behalf of users) which are necessary to accomplish assigned tasks in accordance with organizational missions and business functions.

Additional IBM Cloud for Financial Services specifications

• Individual users are not permitted to interact with system-to-system service accounts.

Implementation guidance

See the resources that follow to learn more about how to implement this control.

• Access management in IBM Cloud
• Consumer accounts for application provider workloads
• Organizing IBM Cloud accounts and resources

NIST supplemental guidance

Organizations employ least privilege for specific duties and information systems. The principle of least privilege is also applied to information system processes, ensuring that the processes operate at privilege levels no higher than necessary to accomplish required organizational missions/business functions. Organizations consider the creation of additional processes, roles, and information system accounts as necessary, to achieve least privilege. Organizations also apply least privilege to the development, implementation, and operation of organizational information systems.