Preventing Good People from Doing Bad Things: Implementing Least Privilege

Final Thoughts for Least Privilege Best Practices

“Having a central view of all system administration reduces the costs of forensic investigation and allows for a faster response to security incidents while improving the company's ability to answer tough audit questions.”

—Andras Cser, Forrester Research

You've invested in information technology and the associated infrastructure, applications, databases, and peripherals to assist your company in becoming competitive, ease administration, and satisfy reporting and compliance mandates. You've made decisions on physical servers and desktops. You've decided on what to virtualize for cost saving ...