CR-IA-01Level 2 · Cohort
Exposed credentials without strong MFA
- Targeted
- Easy
- Identity and access
- Level 2 · Cohort
People whose credentials appeared in a public breach and who have not enrolled a phishing-resistant MFA factor.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Cohort class
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- Targeted
- Difficulty
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- Easy
A cohort is Easy when every one of its signals is available from standard connectors, Medium when any signal needs setup and none needs an integration or a survey, and Hard when any signal needs an integration or a survey.
- Dimensions Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0 (from its signals)
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- ID.RA-02
- PR.AA-03
- MITRE ATT&CK (from its signals)
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- T1589
- T1621
The definition, in detail
Definition
A leaked password with a weak second factor or none is a working key.
Example
A sales engineer's work email and reused password appeared in a breached forum dump; the account still relies on SMS codes.
How it is measured
- Formula
- IA-T-01 + not IA-B-08
- Class
- Targeted
- Difficulty
- Easy: every signal is available from standard connectors
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Sources
- Breach & dark-web exposure, Identity provider & MFA
How it is used
Programs count the people who match IA-T-01 + not IA-B-08 at once as a targeted cohort in Identity and access, trend that population, and point the response at it; it feeds 1 breach scenario.
Membership is evidence that the signals in the formula describe the same person at once. It is a population to act on; on its own it confirms no incident.
Continue exploring
"Exposed credentials without strong MFA" (CR-IA-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/cohorts/cr-ia-01-exposed-credentials-without-strong-mfa
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The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.