Athena Compliance Centre - Administrative Accounts Details

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Summary

Privileged user accounts with access to sensitive information, applications and computers within an organisation, resulting in high risk of attack.

Overview

User accounts with special access privileges (e.g. administrative accounts) typically have the greatest level of access to information, applications and computers. When these privileged accounts are accessed by attackers they can cause the most amount of damage because they can usually perform actions such as install malicious software and make changes. Special access includes privileges over and above those of normal users. It is not acceptable to work on day-to-day basis in a privileged "administrator" mode.

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