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NIST 800-53 rev.5

NIST 800-53 rev.5/Access Control/17 of 1011

AC-03 (03)Access Enforcement | Mandatory Access Control

Control family: Access Control

Control description

Enforce [Assignment: organization-defined mandatory access control policy] over the set of covered subjects and objects specified in the policy, and where the policy:

(a) Is uniformly enforced across the covered subjects and objects within the system;

(b) Specifies that a subject that has been granted access to information is constrained from doing any of the following;

(1) Passing the information to unauthorized subjects or objects;

(2) Granting its privileges to other subjects;

(3) Changing one or more security attributes (specified by the policy) on subjects, objects, the system, or system components;

(4) Choosing the security attributes and attribute values (specified by the policy) to be associated with newly created or modified objects; and

(5) Changing the rules governing access control; and

(c) Specifies that [Assignment: organization-defined subjects] may explicitly be granted [Assignment: organization-defined privileges] such that they are not limited by any defined subset (or all) of the above constraints.

How to implement

Coming in phase 2Step-by-step guidance for implementing this control on Microsoft Azure, using services such as Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Entra ID. It will be matched to your environment.