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Five steps to mitigating privileged account risks: Getting ahead of a security breach

Monday March 4, 2019. 11:39 AM , from BetaNews
Privileged accounts are a necessity in all enterprise IT environments. Administrators must have enhanced privileges to manage the environment. Unfortunately, these privileged accounts bring high risk to a company’s network; in fact, recent research shows that almost half (44 percent) of all security breaches that happened in 2017 involved privileged account access. There are a number of reasons these privileged accounts bring such high risk with them. For example, something so simple as a password reset can mistakenly grant a user full administrative rights that can be misused either intentionally or accidentally. These accounts are also inherently difficult to manage… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2019/03/04/getting-ahead-of-a-security-breach/
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