Annex A 8.2
Privileged access rights
The allocation and use of privileged access rights is restricted and managed.
What an assessor looks for
Show who holds privilege, why, and how use is logged and reviewed. Standing administrative access attracts more scrutiny than time-bound elevation.
Where it usually fails
Administrators use privileged accounts for routine work, so privileged activity cannot be distinguished in the logs.
Classification
- Theme
- A.8 Technological
- Control type
- Preventive
- Security properties
- Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
- Cybersecurity concepts
- Protect
- ISO 27001:2013 equivalent
- 9.2.3
Control number and title are identifiers used as references. The classification above is our own analysis, aligned to the shape of the ISO 27002 attribute model rather than reproduced from it, and no text from the standard appears on this page. Last reviewed 2026-08-03.
Building the Statement of Applicability?
Record your applicability decision for this control and the other 92 in the browser-based builder. Nothing is transmitted, and you export the file at the end.
Open the SoA builder