IA-A-01Level 1 · Signal
Holds admin or privileged roles
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An access signal from the identity provider: the person holds an administrative or otherwise privileged role on a core system.
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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- PR.AA-05
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1078
The definition, in detail
Definition
If this person is compromised, the attacker inherits the role.
Example
A systems engineer holds global admin rights on the identity tenant and the email platform for day-to-day convenience.
How it is measured
- Source
- Identity provider & MFA
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- permission.role.changed
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Gartner, NIST CSF 2.0, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Holds admin or privileged roles" per person from Identity provider & MFA and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 4 cohorts, 1 sequence and 3 breach scenarios.
A "holds admin or privileged roles" 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
"Holds admin or privileged roles" (IA-A-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ia-a-01-holds-admin-or-privileged-roles
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.