IA-T-02Level 1 · Signal
Credentials flagged as compromised
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A threat signal from an exposure feed or the identity provider: a credential the person currently uses matches a known compromised password.
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.RA-02
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1078
The definition, in detail
Definition
The exposure is live, because the password still works.
Example
An engineer's current single sign-on password matches an entry in a stolen-password list, and the identity team forces a reset within the hour.
How it is measured
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- credential.compromised
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Gartner, Verizon DBIR
How it is used
Programs count "Credentials flagged as compromised" per person from Breach & dark-web exposure and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 1 sequence and 2 breach scenarios.
A "credentials flagged as compromised" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
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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.