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

["Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

> So you don't trust your own InfoSec team.  They should have more rights than
> anyone generally.

Where is < Principle of Least Privelege & Seperation of Duty > in this scheme?

>  I need those rights to access the logs and other items to
> investigate the it staff, it's actions, unauthorized changes to ad, run
> various tools that require domain admin to extract data (I don't like
> generic accounts with domain admin because now I have no idea who ran it),

I think this is a bad practice. InfoSec should not have administration
rights on regular basis. They should only have access to the Automated
Audit Log generated. However for investigation purposes they may be
given admin access on "replica" of the system, and not the real
production system.


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