DH-A-01Level 1 · Signal
Access to sensitive data repositories
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An access signal from data security posture tooling: the person can read or edit repositories classed as sensitive, such as customer records, source code or financial data.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- 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
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- ID.AM-07
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1213
The definition, in detail
Definition
The wider the reach, the more one mistake exposes.
Example
A business analyst has edit rights on a shared drive that holds every customer contract, which she needs for two of them.
How it is measured
- Source
- Data security posture
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Data access map
- Risk domain
- Data handling
- Provenance
- Forrester, Gartner, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Access to sensitive data repositories" per person from Data security posture and read it beside the other Data handling signals; it feeds 2 cohorts, 0 sequences and 3 breach scenarios.
A "access to sensitive data repositories" record is evidence of what the person could expose (the access side of the model). It describes reach; it records no action by the person and no attack under way.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
"Access to sensitive data repositories" (DH-A-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/dh-a-01-access-to-sensitive-data-repositories
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
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.