A.9.2.4 Management of secret authentication information of users
A.9.2.4 in ISO 27001:2013 (ISO/IEC 27001:2013). All ISO 27001:2013 controls held. Open ISO 27001:2013 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
Management of secret authentication information of users. Issuing secret authentication information is controlled through a formal management process. As an Annex A reference control it is compared with the controls chosen in risk treatment (6.1.3 c) and recorded in the Statement of Applicability, included with a reason and an implementation status or excluded with a reason (6.1.3 d). Carried into ISO/IEC 27001:2022 as A.5.17.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
ISO 27001:2022
- A.5.17 Authentication information (reviewed pair)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: A.9 Access control), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the access-control policy and its review
- the user registration and de-registration records
- the privilege review output
- the password or authentication standard