IA-A-04Level 1 · Signal
Standing access to backup or storage consoles
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An access signal from identity governance: the person has permanent access to backup, snapshot or storage administration consoles.
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.DS-11
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1490
The definition, in detail
Definition
Attackers reach these consoles to destroy recovery options before ransomware.
Example
A junior infrastructure engineer can delete backup snapshots from his everyday account without a second approval.
How it is measured
- Source
- IGA, PAM & entitlements
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Console entitlement
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Standing access to backup or storage consoles" per person from IGA, PAM & entitlements and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 1 sequence and 1 breach scenario.
A "standing access to backup or storage consoles" 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
"Standing access to backup or storage consoles" (IA-A-04), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ia-a-04-standing-access-to-backup-or-storage-consoles
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
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