SE-A-02Level 1 · Signal
Holds payment approval authority
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An access signal from the finance or payment system: the person can approve payments, change payee bank details or release funds.
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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- T1657
The definition, in detail
Definition
A successful deception of this person turns into a direct financial loss.
Example
A regional finance manager can approve wires up to a set limit on his own, which makes him the natural target of a fake vendor bank-change request.
How it is measured
- Source
- Finance & payments
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Finance role
- Risk domain
- Social engineering
- Provenance
- FBI IC3, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Holds payment approval authority" per person from Finance & payments and read it beside the other Social engineering signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 1 sequence and 1 breach scenario.
A "holds payment approval authority" 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 payment approval authority" (SE-A-02), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/se-a-02-holds-payment-approval-authority
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The initial assessment
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