5.4: Restrict Administrator Privileges to Dedicated Administrator Accounts ========================================================= Restrict administrator privileges to dedicated administrator accounts on enterprise assets. Conduct general computing activities, such as internet browsing, email, and productivity suite use, from the user’s primary, non-privileged account. .. list-table:: :header-rows: 1 * - Asset Type - Security Function - Implementation Groups * - Users - Protect - 1, 2, 3 Dependencies ------------ * Safeguard 5.1: Establish and Maintain an Inventory of Accounts Inputs ------ #. :code:`GV22`: Inventory of accounts #. List of users identified as administrators Assumptions ---------- #. For the purpose of this control, it is assumed that users identified as administrators that have an active administrative and non-administrative account have properly dedicated accounts for administrative privileges. Operations ---------- #. Using :code:`GV22` and Input 2 #. Identify and enumerate users identified as administrators with active administrator accounts (M1) #. Identify and enumerate users identified as administrators without active administrator accounts (M2) #. Identify and enumerate users not identified as administrators with active administrator accounts (M3) #. Using :code:`GV22` and output of Operation 1.1 #. Identify and enumerate users identified as administrators that have an active non-administrative user account (M4) #. Identify and enumerate users identified as administrators that do not have an active non-administrative user account (M5) Measures -------- * M1 = Count of authorized administrative users with active administrator accounts * M2 = Count of authorized administrative users without active administrator accounts * M3 = Count of non-administrative users with active administrator accounts * M4 = Count of authorized administrative users with an active administrative and non-administrative account * M5 = Count of authorized administrative users without an active administrative and non-administrative account * M6 = Count of Input 2 Metrics ------- Administrative User Accounts ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. list-table:: * - **Metric** - | The perecentage of administrative users with both an administrative account | and non-administrative acount. * - **Calculation** - :code:`M4/ M6` Unauthorized Administrative Accounts ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. list-table:: * - **Metric** - | The percentage of unauthorized administrative accounts * - **Calculation** - :code:`M3 / (M1 + M3)` .. history .. authors .. license