Control Packs · IDN-002 · v1.0.0

Temporary Privilege Expiry

Make privileged authority time-bound, purpose-bound, and independently visible when it crosses a dependency boundary.

Status: review · Review: not independent. This is design guidance; review status does not establish independent verification or compliance.

What this safeguard addresses

Use scoped, time-limited privileged grants with approval, expiry, revocation, and failure visibility.

  • Temporary authority becomes persistentA privileged integration retains access after the task, incident, or approval window that justified it has ended.
Versioned applicability rule
{
  "all": [
    {
      "characteristic": "PRIVILEGED_ACTION",
      "equals": true
    },
    {
      "characteristic": "EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCY",
      "equals": true
    }
  ]
}

Decisions for the project owner

Leave a decision open when its value is unknown. Suggested values become confirmed only through an explicit user decision.

  • Which privileged operations require temporary approval and automatic expiry?The system must not assume that an external integration needs permanent authority.IDN-002-Q1 · scope

Requirements for the coding agent

  • IDN-002-R1Separate privileged operations, require explicit approval, expire grants automatically, and record grant and revocation outcomes.

Tests and evidence to retain

  • PRIVILEGE_EXPIRY_TESTVerify approval, allowed operation, denied operation, expiry, revocation, and dependency failure behavior.
  • configuration_or_policy
  • implementation_location
  • test_result
  • telemetry_definition

Passing a published example shows that example's behavior. A coding agent's implementation report remains a claim until its evidence is independently checked.

Related guidance

  • AC-2 · Account ManagementNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesApproval, expiry, grant, and revocation events address a defined privileged-access lifecycle; they do not cover all account management.
  • AC-6 · Least PrivilegeNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesTemporary, purpose-bound privileged access limits authority; it does not establish complete least privilege.
  • AU-12 · Audit Record GenerationNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesGrant and revocation events provide focused audit generation for privilege changes; they do not cover all audit records.

Mappings indicate contextual relevance or partial support. They do not establish equivalence, certification, government endorsement, or complete framework implementation.

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