Account Management-Account Types

Question 1

Administrators accounts

Answer 1

have full system access, need to be protected, and uses a principle of least privilege, examples are windows administrator and nix-based root user

Question 2

What are Standard users?

Answer 2

they perform most activities, can’t perform system wide changes, security vs. convenience( principle of lease privilege)

Question 3

What are guest account

Answer 3

only has access to isolated data and permissions on certain cases. Such as kiosks, shared computers and should be used sparingly

Question 4

What are service accounts?

Answer 4

When a NPE (non-person) needs permission to access a database or service, they should have principle least privilege and should be managed

Question 5

What is a shared account?

Answer 5

Create one account and is shared by mutiple people. Allows non repudiation. Security vs convenience( principle of least privilage.