A survey of nearly 300 Black Hat conference attendees this year showed strong agreement that service accounts are an attractive target. Nearly 19,000 infosec experts travel from all over the world to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As I once heard it put so well, "Good account management is about listening, understanding ...

Kerberoasting attacks remain an enduring headache for IT professionals, allowing hackers to escalate privileges and reach the highest levels of your Active Directory (AD) environment. But by enforcing ...

The official Microsoft docs strongly discourage the practice of user accounts employed as service accounts. Instead, they recommend using service principals or managed identities. Leaving aside MI's ...

How do you guys deal with AD service accounts that are part of the password policy? I'm looking for a way to notify the owner of the account that the password is about to expire via e-mail. We run a ...