Should only 1 person (a outside contractor) be the ONLY person who has access to a domain administrator account? One other person does have some IT responsibilities. She only has a regular domain user ...

OK, so like many places. IT staff is domain administrators. I know that is a bad idea and our recent outbreak of a undiscovered version of the conficker worm made that all too apparent. So I wish to ...

You can grant local administrator privileges to a domain account by adding that domain account to the administrators group on the local machine. Creating a group in the domain containing the domain ...

In my Tech Insight article in November, I discussed the issue of managing privileged accounts within an enterprise. One area I didn't really touch on was how to protect the local administrator ...

Windows finally includes a tool to manage local admin passwords, but admins will still need to do some work to make it useful. Image: Ivan/Adobe Stock. One of the best ways to defend your network is ...

Yaron Kassner, CTO and co-founder of Silverfort, discusses why using all-seeing privileged accounts for monitoring is bad practice. In almost every network, there is a highly privileged service ...