---
name: framework-financial-services-controls-ac-6
title: AC-6 - Least Privilege
description: Employ the principle of least privilege, allowing only authorized accesses for users (or processes acting on behalf of users) that are necessary to accomplish assigned organizational tasks.
last-updated: 2025-02-26
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# AC-6 - Least Privilege
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## Control requirements
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### AC-6 - 0


Employ the principle of least privilege, allowing only authorized accesses for users (or processes acting on behalf of users) that are necessary to accomplish assigned organizational tasks.






## Additional IBM Cloud for Financial Services specifications
{: #additional-ibm-cloud-for-financial-services-specifications}

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




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


- [Organizing IBM Cloud accounts and resources](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-shared-account-organization&format=markdown)


- [Consumer accounts for application provider workloads](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-shared-account-consumer&format=markdown)


- [Access management in IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-shared-account-access-management&format=markdown)






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