2.6.5: Minimise privileges for management accounts

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Minimise privileges for management accounts. a) Create different accounts for different management operations (even though it may be the same person carrying out the operations in practice), so that if one account is compromised, it will still not grant privileges to the entire system. I.e. different management accounts for backup, user administration, managing clients, managing servers etc. b) Limit the use of accounts with domain admin privileges to a minimum of the organisation’s management operations. Accounts with domain admin privileges should never be used interactively on clients and servers (mitigates the consequences of “pass the hash” attacks). c) Avoid non-personalised accounts (“backup_john” is better than just “backup”) to ensure accountability and make it easier to deactivate accounts when someone leaves the organisation. If it is difficult to avoid non-personalised accounts, one should ensure that the user first logs in with a personal user ID to ensure accountability.

This requirement is part of the framework:  
NSM ICT Security Principles (Norway)
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2.6.5: Minimise privileges for management accounts

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Minimise privileges for management accounts. a) Create different accounts for different management operations (even though it may be the same person carrying out the operations in practice), so that if one account is compromised, it will still not grant privileges to the entire system. I.e. different management accounts for backup, user administration, managing clients, managing servers etc. b) Limit the use of accounts with domain admin privileges to a minimum of the organisation’s management operations. Accounts with domain admin privileges should never be used interactively on clients and servers (mitigates the consequences of “pass the hash” attacks). c) Avoid non-personalised accounts (“backup_john” is better than just “backup”) to ensure accountability and make it easier to deactivate accounts when someone leaves the organisation. If it is difficult to avoid non-personalised accounts, one should ensure that the user first logs in with a personal user ID to ensure accountability.

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2.6.5: Minimise privileges for management accounts
of the framework  
NSM ICT Security Principles (Norway)
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Priority
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Complete these tasks to increase your compliance in this policy.
Critical
Managing shared user credential through password management system
Critical
High
Normal
Low
Use of dedicated admin accounts in critical data systems
Critical
High
Normal
Low
Using unique user names
Critical
High
Normal
Low

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