Re: 'Read only' Admin privileges for Active Directory environment?

[Raoul Armfield <armfield () amnh org>]

Michael Gressick wrote:
> This is a smaller company and a lot of the audits would be more
> manual.  The problem specifically isnt that InfoSec can't be trusted,
> but more that the IT team can't be trusted.  They have been caught in
> the past using service accounts (Blackberry acct for example) to
> perform day-to-day tasks. Their everyday accounts are in the Domain
> Admins group.  We have found highly confidential file shares open to
> the entire company. All of this with normal domain admin rights. I
> worry what might be setup poorly/insecurely somewhere we can't see.

I must say though if you can not trust your Admins you have some issues 
that need to be dealt with before anything else.  I believe that if you 
can not trust your admins even if you have a security team in place you 
need to replace the admins with trustworthy people.  If the admin is any 
good he can hide his tracks so that unless you are actively looking for 
wrongdoing you will not be able to notice anything is wrong.  Or he can 
even lead you down a wrong path.

Raoul



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Raoul Armfield
rarmfield at amnh dot org

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