James Quick

Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report consistently finds that 80 percent of breaches are caused by compromised or weak credentials. Today’s columnist, James Quick of Simeio, says because of these high rates of attack, security teams should make all accounts privileged.

The case for making all accounts privileged

James QuickJanuary 8, 2021

When we think of privileged accounts, we think of Unix root accounts or Windows domain admins. We think of database administrator accounts, service accounts, shared accounts, and so on. But we should treat every account as a privileged account.