Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 07 | Page 89

FINAL WORD REINFORCING SECURITY BY REDUCING PRIVILEGED ACCESS As I tour the world helping Active Directory administrators, security professionals, and auditors secure their Windows environment, I often get questions about privileged access, states Derek Melber, Technical Evangelist at ManageEngine. The questions usually are about how privileges are granted and how an organisation can know if its privileges are correct. These are great questions considering the onset of so many attacks on Windows in the past five to seven years. It is important to see that privileged access is usually at the core of these attacks. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 89