Access Control from the identity system, not a questionnaire.

An AI agent assesses NIST SP 800-53 Access Control family requirements by querying a connected identity management platform for real account, role and entitlement state.

Actual state, not attestation

Controls in the AC family depend on who holds which accounts, roles and entitlements. The agent reads that state from the identity platform and produces a finding together with the evidence it reasoned from, rather than asking someone to attest to it.

How the agent is wired

One agent between your identity system and the whole AC family.

The agent sits on the AlloyGRC integration midpoint. Today the midpoint is connected to Active Directory. It is built so the same seat can take whatever identity or access management service you run, so AC evidence comes from where your accounts actually live, not from a form somebody filled in.

Identity sources

Active Directory Connected today
Microsoft Entra ID Through the midpoint
Okta and other SSO Through the midpoint
Any LDAP or SCIM directory Through the midpoint

AlloyGRC midpoint

AC Intelligence agent

Reads live account, role and entitlement state, reasons over it one control at a time, and writes a finding you can review.

Who has too many roles
Stale accounts
Service account risk
Full AC violation scan

NIST SP 800-53 Access Control family

AC-1AC-2AC-3AC-4AC-5AC-6AC-7AC-8AC-9AC-10AC-11AC-12AC-13AC-14AC-15AC-16AC-17AC-18AC-19AC-20AC-21AC-22AC-23AC-24AC-25

Assessed
Partial
Not yet run
Not in baseline

Illustrative states. At HIGH impact the family is 46 controls and enhancements; the agent runs one, several, or the full baseline in a pass.

Into the ATO workflow

Every result is persisted to the cATO evidence store and attaches to the matching AC control in the ATO workflow. The AC family is evidenced while the rest of the package is still being written, which is where the time comes back.

cATO evidence storeATO workflowPer control findings

Boost your efficiency

Your AC Evidence Upload & Assessment just got a lot faster.

The agent completely automates the AC control evaluation. Configured well, the agent would remove any need for manual evidence uploads by checking directly with the source. Just select your system, let the assessment run while you take a well-deserved break, and come back to find it all done for you, ready to import directly into your ATO workflow.

What you can do

Assess AC controls against live identity data instead of a point in time questionnaire
Review the agent's finding and the identity state it reasoned from

Straight answers

What does it assess against?

A connected identity management instance, which is where account, role and entitlement state lives. Controls that depend on data from other sources, such as log driven requirements, are assessed through their own paths.

Is this the model for other control families?

Yes. Access Control is the family built today, and it is the pattern intended to extend to further families over time.

Seen in the app

The real thing, on synthetic data

The Access Control assessment workspace: a navigator with the FISMA system, a single control assessment picker, a full HIGH baseline run of 46 controls, quick queries, and a chat asking about users, roles, resources or any NIST AC control. — The workspace. Pick a system and one control, or run the whole baseline at your impact level; ask about users, roles and resources in plain words. Every result lands in the cATO evidence database. Captured from the real product against the vendor's own test identity store, not a customer's.

Compliance and Authorization

Also in this area

Run the RMF as a managed workflow

How it all fits together

Access Control Assessment has more to show than fits on this page yet. A full walkthrough with visuals is being written. Ask for a demo to see it running today.

See a control assessed from real state.

Ask for a demo and we will show the agent reasoning over a synthetic identity store.

Request a Demo Evidence analysis for the other families