RE: Securing Service Accounts - Good Practices

["David Tobias" <DTobias () Keenan com>]

Thank you all for the valuable feedback. It's been very helpful! 

 

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On Behalf Of J. Oquendo
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:01 AM
To: David Tobias
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Securing Service Accounts - Good Practices

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, David Tobias wrote:

> The grand question here is what is the best practices/guidelines when 
> encountering this type of solution. Do we remove each service account,

> one by one, waiting to see what, if anything, fails and then decide 
> how to give rights to that account? What about in the future, when 
> creating and securing new accounts...what are the best guidelines and 
> practices to go by?

Sort of a difficult question to answer respond to provided no one know
what the environment you're working at is. There could be limitations to
what some will send you in regards to best practices and guidelines for
their industry. E.g., are you in an environment where information has to
be highly compartmentalized?

I suggest beginning by getting in touch with your CISO, CSO and having
an assessment and analysis done. You're missing a large scope in regards
to INFORMATION security - don't let the technological part confuse you.
There can be a large consequence not to mention financial risk of
"waiting to see what fails".

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773365.aspx

An analysis and BIA will identify what needs to be done in the best
fashion from the business side of things first where the risks are
weighed and decisions would be made to promote a healthier more secure
and robust solution. My two cents. 

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