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IA.3.086
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Control Acronym
IA
Family
Identification And Authentication
CMMC Level
3
800-171 Control #
3.5.6
CMMC Description
Disable identifiers after a defined period of inactivity.
CMMC Clarification
Identifiers are uniquely associated with an individual, group, role or device. An inactive identifier is one that has not been used for a certain period of time. For example, a user account may be needed for a certain time to allow for transition of business processes to existing or new staff. Once use of the identifier is no longer necessary it should be disabled and marked for deletion based on policy. Failure to maintain awareness of accounts that are no longer needed yet still active could be used by an adversary to exploit IT services. Example You are the IT manager responsible for enforcing your company’s inactive account policy: any account that has not been used in the last 45 days must be deleted. You decide to do this by writing a script that runs once a day to check the last login date for each account and generates a report of the accounts with no login records for the last 45 days. After reviewing the report, you notify the employee’s supervisor and delete the account.
800-171 Description
Disable identifiers after a defined period of inactivity.
800-171 Discussion
Inactive identifiers pose a risk to organizational information because attackers may exploit an inactive identifier to gain undetected access to organizational devices. The owners of the inactive accounts may not notice if unauthorized access to the account has been obtained.
Other Source Discussion
N/A
CIS Control References
CIS Controls v7.1 16.9, 16.10, 16.11
NIST 800-53 Control Ref.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4 IA-4
CMMC Derived
NIST CSF Control References
NIST 800-171 References
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 1 3.5.6
Applicable FAR Clause
NIST CSF Control Reference
NIST CSF v1.1 PR.AC-1, PR.AC-6, PR.AC-7
CERT RMM Reference
Modification of NIST 800-171B Reference
NIST 800-171B Reference
UK NCSCCyber Reference
AS ACSC Reference
Sub-Criterias
Assessment Sub-Criteria 1
IA.3.086.[a] a period of inactivity after which an identifier is disabled is defined; and
Assessment Sub-Criteria 2
IA.3.086.[b] identifiers are disabled after the defined period of inactivity.