AC-2(7)—Privileged User Accounts
>Control Description
a. Establish and administer privileged user accounts in accordance with [Selection (one): a role-based access scheme; an attribute-based access scheme]; b. Monitor privileged role or attribute assignments; c. Monitor changes to roles or attributes; and d. Revoke access when privileged role or attribute assignments are no longer appropriate.
>Supplemental Guidance
Privileged roles are organization-defined roles assigned to individuals that allow those individuals to perform certain security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform. Privileged roles include key management, account management, database administration, system and network administration, and web administration. A role-based access scheme organizes permitted system access and privileges into roles. In contrast, an attribute-based access scheme specifies allowed system access and privileges based on attributes.