High Privilege, Low Discipline: The Risk of Everyday Admin Use in Shared Infrastructure

Cyber MIllennial
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Most IT professionals know they shouldn’t use elevated accounts for everyday tasks. But knowing is not the problem, leaving it enabled by default it is. This article looks at how exposure happens by design when administrative accounts are allowed to log into workstations, Citrix sessions, or virtual desktops without controls. Deny the possibility by default. If an attacker compromises a single endpoint, your architecture should prevent it from becoming a breach-level incident.

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PAM is Not Enough: When Forgotten Accounts Bypass Your Controls

Cyber Millennial
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Even mature environments misjudge the scope of their privileged access exposure. This article unpacks how real-world privilege creep unfolds, from nested AD groups to unmanaged service accounts, forgotten appliance credentials, and newly created local admins. PAM tooling helps, but it is often blind to the accounts that matter most. If your visibility stops at Domain Admins or naming convention–based groups like CyberArk-Admins-VMWare or Delinea-SA-Storage, you are not seeing the breach path.

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