Overcoming the Security Blind Spot of Service Accounts
Exclusion from PAM & MFA
Service accounts cannot be subject to MFA since they are not human. Similarly, their passwords cannot be easily rotated in a PAM vault due to the risk of their logins failing and crashing the critical processes they manage.
High access privileges
Service accounts typically have high access privileges for their machine-to-machine access. This makes them lucrative targets for attackers seeking to take advantage of these access privileges for malicious purposes..
Low visibility
Service accounts can be created at will and there's limited automated classification for these accounts in Active Directory. This significantly hinders IT's ability to effectively track and monitor their usage.
These challenges result with
high exposure to compromise
Service Account security challenges: Invisible, highly privileged, and unprotectable
Exclusion from PAM & MFA
Service accounts cannot be subject to MFA since they are not human. Similarly, their passwords cannot be easily rotated in a PAM vault due to the risk of their logins failing and crashing the critical processes they manage.
Low visibility
Service accounts can be created at will and there's limited automated classification for these accounts in Active Directory. This significantly hinders IT's ability to effectively track and monitor their usage.
High access privileges
Service accounts typically have high access privileges for their machine-to-machine access. This makes them lucrative targets for attackers seeking to take advantage of these access privileges for malicious purposes..
These challenges result with
high exposure to compromise
Overcoming the Security Blind Spot of Service Accounts
Service Account security challenges: Invisible, highly privileged, and unprotectable