User Accounts: Hidden Danger From Shadow Admins
Shadow admin accounts are overprivileged user accounts that were inadvertently assigned. If a hacker compromises a shadow admin account, this poses a high risk to company security. Silverfort lists best practices against accounts with too high privileges. If an attacker can hijack privileged accounts and access their target systems, this massively endangers an entire network. However, identifying shadow admins and restricting their privileges is not an easy task. The following explains how shadow administrators emerge and what measures companies can take to effectively contain this hidden danger. This is how shadow administrator accounts are created...