OK, so like many places. IT staff is domain administrators. I know that is a bad idea and our recent outbreak of a undiscovered version of the conficker worm made that all too apparent. So I wish to ...

Grant local admin privileges to domain account by adding it to the administrators group on the local machine. I am running a network of hundreds of computers with Windows XP Pro clients and Windows ...

Should only 1 person (a outside contractor) be the ONLY person who has access to a domain administrator account? One other person does have some IT responsibilities. She only has a regular domain user ...

Protect domain-joined computer passwords with Windows’ Local Administrator Password Solution Your email has been sent Windows finally includes a tool to manage ...

Yaron Kassner, CTO and co-founder of Silverfort, discusses why using all-seeing privileged accounts for monitoring is bad practice. In almost every network, there is a highly privileged service ...

Since its inception in 2014, my team has been on the front lines many times, helping companies combat cyberattacks that target identity systems such as Microsoft's Active Directory, an increasingly ...

For one reason or the other, you may want to delete a domain user profile or account on a Windows 11/10 PC – for example, you may have a laptop that was used temporarily that you want to repurpose for ...

This article describes how to change the built-in Administrator account name in Windows 10 to bolster your computer's security. We'll also look at how to change the name of other accounts that have ...

Active Directory is at the center of many attacks as it is still the predominant source of identity and access management in the enterprise. Hackers commonly target Active Directory with various ...