{"id":3480,"date":"2014-12-12T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T03:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2014-12-12T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T03:50:03","slug":"webinar-10-ways-to-secure-and-manage-the-risk-of-service-accounts-and-other-non-human-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/webinar-10-ways-to-secure-and-manage-the-risk-of-service-accounts-and-other-non-human-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar – 10 Ways to Secure and Manage the Risk of Service Accounts and Other Non-Human Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are so many user accounts in any environment which are what I call \u201cnon-human\u201d accounts – like accounts for services and scheduled tasks. Acounts that applications use to access database servers and accounts used by scripts to logon to other servers.<\/p>\n

These non-human accounts tend to create all kinds of risks and management burdens. Non- human accounts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Tend to be highly privileged and therefore a definite target of attackers<\/li>\n
  2. Frequently have passwords duplicated on other systems\u2013 making it easy for bad guys to extend their lateral kill chain<\/li>\n
  3. Tend to stick around after no longer being needed because we are sure and don\u2019t want to break anything by deleting them<\/li>\n
  4. Are a burden and risk in terms of passwords\n
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    1. Periodic password changes \u2013 again easy to break something if we miss updating the password somewhere it is stored<\/li>\n
    2. When admins leave with knowledge of the password<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      Read more at – Webinar – 10 Ways to Secure and Manage the Risk of Service Accounts and Other Non-Human Accounts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      There are so many user accounts in any environment which are what I call \u201cnon-human\u201d accounts – like accounts for services and scheduled tasks. Acounts that applications use to access database servers and accounts used by scripts to logon to other servers. These non-human accounts tend to create all kinds of risks and management burdens. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,88,6],"tags":[1345,1110],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-identity-space","category-news","tag-iam-solutions","tag-service-accounts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-U8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}