Overcoming the Security Blind Spot of Service Accounts

Identity security platform

  • How: Automated discovery, monitoring and protection for all service accounts.

  • Pros: Full coverage, zero manual effort, automated blocking of malicious activity.

  • Cons: Need to manually enable policies.

Manual discovery and monitoring

  • How: Investigating directories and machines to identify service accounts and their associated scripts.

  • Pros: Does not require a dedicated solution
    or skill.

  • Cons: Resource consuming, partial results, prone to human error.

Alerting on anomalous activity

  • How: Utilizing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms to alert when deviations from normal behavior occur.

  • Pros: Automated alerting.

  • Cons: Allows malicious activity to continue while investigation takes place, requires highly skilled security team, prone to alert fatigue.

T he three approaches to protecting Service Accounts

Overcoming the Security Blind Spot of Service Accounts

Identity security platform

  • How: Automated discovery, monitoring and protection for all service accounts.

  • Pros: Full coverage, zero manual effort, automated blocking of malicious activity.

  • Cons: Need to manually enable policies.

Alerting on anomalous activity

  • How: Utilizing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms to alert when deviations from normal behavior occur.

  • Pros: Automated alerting.

  • Cons: Allows malicious activity to continue while investigation takes place, requires highly skilled security team, prone to alert fatigue.

Manual discovery and monitoring

  • How: Investigating directories and machines to identify service accounts and their associated scripts.

  • Pros: Does not require a dedicated solution
    or skill.

  • Cons: Resource consuming, partial results, prone to human error.

T he three approaches to protecting Service Accounts

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