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The password nobody owns: Taking machines to zero standing privilege (ZSP)
Ask your infrastructure lead who owns the service account behind the overnight finance batch and notice how long the answer takes.
Summary
Ask your infrastructure lead who owns the service account behind the overnight finance batch and notice how long the answer takes. In many of the environments I’ve reviewed, the engineer who set it up left years ago and the password has been sitting in a vault, or sometimes a plain config file, ever since.
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