The privileged-account tag has no wiki summary.
24
votes
6answers
1k views
Is it OK to tell or give your password to an admin?
I'm working in a small company (20 employees) as a senior software engineer.
After some email problems, our newly employed IT administrator asked me for the password to our hosting company to see why ...
8
votes
2answers
470 views
Benefits and drawbacks of giving an Administrator two accounts for elevated rights and another for daily use, such as email
Microsoft has long promoted the need to separate administrative accounts from regular use accounts, as shown with this guidance
MSFT even went to far as create ADMINSDUser rights to put ...
8
votes
4answers
423 views
Security policy for system administrators
I've been in charge of systems administration for a small company for a couple of years and am now training some new collaborators to take over. So far, there has been no security policy, but I would ...
14
votes
3answers
403 views
Is it OK to tell your password to an admin? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
From a security point : Is it OK to tell your password to an admin?
I am working in a small company (20 employees) as a senior SW engineer.
After having some email ...
10
votes
3answers
324 views
What security requirements do you have for Domain Administrators?
With regard to managing a Windows network, what security polices and processes do you use? For example
Do you require/support Smart Card
Authentication?
Restrict logins
from a particular ...
3
votes
1answer
221 views
How do I use Windows 7 virtualization features to prevent transitive trust of admin credentials?
I am exploring using VMs to separate my administrative actions from standard user actions in Windows 7. The goal is to limit my risk and exposure when using "RunAs" to open an application or file ...
