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NIST 800-171 · Identification and Authentication

Requirement 3.5.3

SPRS weight
SPRS weight: 5
POA&M eligibility
Not POA&M-eligible
Assessment objectives
4 assessment objectives

Official requirement text

Use multifactor authentication for local and network access to privileged accounts and for network access to non-privileged accounts.

Assessment objectives

Assessors don’t evaluate the requirement as one sentence; they walk these objectives one by one. Each must be met for the requirement to score.

  1. 3.5.3[a]privileged accounts are identified.
  2. 3.5.3[b]multifactor authentication is implemented for local access to privileged accounts.
  3. 3.5.3[c]multifactor authentication is implemented for network access to privileged accounts.
  4. 3.5.3[d]multifactor authentication is implemented for network access to non-privileged accounts.

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