COMMENTARY Over my 32 years in cybersecurity, one painful constant has been managing the risks associated with network service accounts. Service accounts are supposed to be machine-to-machine accounts ...
The official Microsoft docs strongly discourage the practice of user accounts employed as service accounts. Instead, they recommend using service principals or managed identities. Leaving aside MI's ...
The nation-state attacks of the future won't begin with missiles or gunfire—they'll start with a forgotten password. Although adversaries target critical infrastructure through increasingly ...
Service accounts play a critical role in enabling machine-to-machine communication in Active Directory (AD) environments. Numerous email systems, databases, and applications rely on service accounts ...
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The security of service accounts cannot rely on outdated practices. (Image: Supplied) When securing service accounts, a long-standing best practice has been to enforce regular password rotation. But ...
LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anetac, a Silicon Valley startup protecting companies from identity-based vulnerabilities in hybrid environments, released its inaugural Identity Security Posture ...
You tag an airline on X when your flight gets canceled, *** food delivery service when your order never arrives, or maybe *** hotel when there's *** problem with your stay. Those businesses respond ...