The utilization of always-on privileged accounts has been the default mode for administrative access for the last 40 years. However, always-on access, or persistent administrative credentials (referred to by most analysts as “standing privileges”) represent a massive risk surface as it means the privileged access, rights, and permissions are always on and ready to be exercised—for both legitimate and illicit purposes. And, this risk surface is rapidly exploding alongside the growing use of virtual, cloud, IoT, and DevOps environments in our ever-expanding privilege universe. Of course, cyber ...
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M. J. HaberPrivileged Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5914-6_2121. Just in Time
Morey J. Haber1
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