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Supervisor Authorization

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Require that the registration process to receive an account for logical access includes supervisor or sponsor authorization.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Including supervisor or sponsor authorization as part of the registration process provides an additional level of scrutiny to ensure that the user’s management chain is aware of the account, the account is essential to carry out organizational missions and functions, and the user’s privileges are appropriate for the anticipated responsibilities and authorities within the organization.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for IA-12(1) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. the registration process to receive an account for logical access includes supervisor or sponsor authorization.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Identification and authentication policy; procedures addressing identity proofing; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with system operations responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities; system/network administrators; system developers; organizational personnel with identification and authentication responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing identification and authentication capabilities].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control IA-12 — see the IA-12(1) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (2) (3) (5)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (2) (3) (4) (5)
  • Added: (1)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IA-12(1). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Identification and authentication policy
  • system security plan

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting and/or implementing identification and authentication capabilities

Other Records

  • procedures addressing identity proofing
  • other relevant documents or records