AC-2   Account Management

Account Management


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The organization:

Identifies and selects the following types of information system accounts to support organizational missions/business functions:

Assignment: organization-defined information system account types

AC-2a Parameter Requirement: individual, group, system, application, guest/anonymous, and temporary

  • Assigns account managers for information system accounts;
  • Establishes conditions for group and role membership;
  • Specifies authorized users of the information system, group and role membership, and access authorizations (i.e., privileges) and other attributes (as required) for each account;
  • Requires approvals by [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] for requests to create information system accounts;

AC-2e Parameter Requirement: GSA S/SO or Contractor recommendation to be approved and accepted by the GSA AO * Creates, enables, modifies, disables, and removes information system accounts in accordance with

Assignment: organization-defined procedures or conditions

AC-2f Parameter Requirement: GSA S/SO or Contractor recommendation to be approved and accepted by the GSA AO

  • Monitors the use of information system accounts
  • Notifies account managers
  • When accounts are no longer required;
  • When users are terminated or transferred; and
  • When individual information system usage or need-to-know changes;
  • Authorizes access to the information system based on:
  • A valid access authorization;
  • Intended system usage; and
  • Other attributes as required by the organization or associated missions/business functions;
  • Reviews accounts for compliance with account management requirements

Assignment: organization-defined frequency

AC-2j Parameter Requirement: at least annually * Establishes a process for reissuing shared/group account credentials (if deployed) when individuals are removed from the group.

Platform

Document VPC, Monitoring

Application

Application