A.9.4.4 Use of privileged utility programs
A.9.4.4 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
Use of privileged utility programs. Use of utility programs able to override system and application controls is restricted and tightly controlled. 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.8.18.
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.8.18 Use of privileged utility programs (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