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AU-09(04) Access by Subset of Privileged Users

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
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unchanged AU Moderate baselineHigh baseline part of AU-9

Title

Access by Subset of Privileged Users

Control

Authorize access to management of audit logging functionality to only [Assignment: subset of privileged users or roles].

Discussion

Individuals or roles with privileged access to a system and who are also the subject of an audit by that system may affect the reliability of the audit information by inhibiting audit activities or modifying audit records. Requiring privileged access to be further defined between audit-related privileges and other privileges limits the number of users or roles with audit-related privileges.

Parameters

au-09.04_odp: subset of privileged users or roles

Related controls

ac-5

Assessment objective

AU-09(04) access to management of audit logging functionality is authorized only to [Assignment: subset of privileged users or roles].

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).