IA-B-09Level 1 · Signal
Uses a password manager
- Behavior
- Vigilant
- Level 1 · Signal
A vigilant behavior signal from the identity provider or password manager: the person signs in with credentials stored in the company password manager.
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-01
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1110.004
The definition, in detail
Definition
Managed credentials are unique and long, and they do not autofill on lookalike domains.
Example
A sales engineer saves every customer portal login in the company password manager, and the manager refuses to fill a lookalike page.
How it is measured
- Source
- Identity provider & MFA
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- credential.used
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Forrester, Gartner
How it is used
Programs count "Uses a password manager" per person from Identity provider & MFA and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 1 breach scenario.
A "uses a password manager" event is evidence of a protective behavior; a vigilant behavior at any step breaks a sequence. It is one event, and it does not cancel the risky signals the same person carries.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Library indicators
The detailed observations in the indicator library with the same risk domain, dimension and polarity as this signal.
- I.0134Regularly uses browser password manager with MFA
- I.0173Accesses cloud applications exclusively via SSO
- I.0179Signs into SaaS applications with multi-factor authentication
- I.0329Restricts email use to enterprise-managed accounts
- I.0331Keeps personal and corporate accounts strictly separated
- I.0336Rotates credentials promptly after exposures
- I.0341Revokes exposed sessions and tokens within SLA
- I.0344Removes exposed secrets within remediation SLA
- I.0349Requests takedown for personal data exposures
- I.0353Reports impersonation promptly via official channels
- I.0356Removes public links and rotates exposed data quickly
- I.0358Suppresses public footprint of sensitive contact data
- I.0360Uses unique credentials across vendor portals
- I.0361Acknowledges breach-intel notifications within SLA
- I.0363Confirms credential reset for exposed accounts
- I.0382Reports anomalies in SIM configuration on mobile device
Continue exploring
"Uses a password manager" (IA-B-09), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ia-b-09-uses-a-password-manager
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
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