Break glass is an information technology term used to describe the solving of a catastrophic problem as if metaphorically smashing the glass of a fire alarm and instantly getting help. In the case of privileged password management solutions, it refers to retrieving sensitive credentials by a human identity when an emergency situation arises, and traditional access methods have failed. In other words, you need a special privileged credential to restore operations and there is no way to retrieve it due to some catastrophic event or outage. A break glass scenario, therefore, bypasses standard operating ...
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M. J. HaberPrivileged Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5914-6_1313. Break Glass
Morey J. Haber1
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