IA-A-05Level 1 · Signal
Contingent worker or third-party identity
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An access signal from the HR system or directory: the account belongs to a contractor, vendor or other non-employee.
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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- GV.SC-02
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1199
The definition, in detail
Definition
These identities often sit outside standard onboarding, training and offboarding controls.
Example
An agency developer uses a company account for a six-week engagement and keeps it active after the contract ends.
How it is measured
- Source
- HR system
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Worker type
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Contingent worker or third-party identity" per person from HR system and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "contingent worker or third-party identity" 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
"Contingent worker or third-party identity" (IA-A-05), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ia-a-05-contingent-worker-or-third-party-identity
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.