Courion, a market-leading provider of intelligent identity and access management (IAM) solutions, asks: how secure are your service accounts? Most don’t realize the number of service accounts that exist within their organization, frequently with default password settings created during software installation still in place. The problem is, service accounts typically provide privileged access to valuable and confidential data. Because service accounts are not proactively managed, they represent an especially attractive target to a hacker.

Service accounts characteristically do not correspond to a user; rather, these are accounts that are used by software to access and interact with other software, devices or data. The passwords for service accounts frequently remain unchanged in the interest of avoiding the loss of this interconnectivity. But service accounts left ungoverned, with default password settings in place, make your organization particularly vulnerable to a data breach.

Read more at – Ungoverned Service Accounts With Privileged Access Leave Door Open for Hackers