Manage Credentials and Authentication

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-002586",
  "term": "Manage Credentials and Authentication",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. An ISCM capability that ensures that people have the credentials and authentication methods necessary (and only those necessary) to perform their duties, while limiting access to that which is necessary.\n\n2. See Capability, Credentials and Authentication Management.",
  "synonyms": [
    "Capability, Credentials and Authentication Management"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NISTIR 8011 Vol. 1",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/manage-credentials-and-authentication/"
}