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 ...

As any system administrator knows, using a domain account as a service account is a great practice. Of course, making sure that the account is using the lowest level of privileges is just as important ...

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 ...