A survey of nearly 300 Black Hat conference attendees this year showed strong agreement that service accounts are an attractive target. Nearly 19,000 infosec experts travel from all over the world to ...

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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 ...

Now is the time to establish cybersecurity best practices to prevent service accounts from becoming the attack vector for today's cyber thieves. Service accounts are responsible for granting the ...

Password audits often focus on complexity rules but miss the accounts attackers actually target. Specops Software explains ...

Those of you running mid-large MS networks: do you have a policy of how to handle passwords on service accounts? This has recently become an issue at my company, and since I've taken a newly created ...

The security of service accounts cannot rely on outdated practices.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 ...

I've come to a company where everything, literally everything is run by one domain administrative account. One of my Main Objectives(TM) is to reduce our dependency on this account to as damn-near ...