By virtue of assigning the service account to key Windows services, the operating system adds one or more user rights to the account. For example, if the user Joe is a member of the low-privileged manager-staff global group, but the manager-staff group was placed inside a high-privileged group, Joe will have greater permissions whether that was intended or not.Īctive Directory can grant user rights to ordinary user accounts, such as a service account that is a member of the Domain Admins global group. Look for direct assignments of a domain user account inside a high-privileged group, nested group memberships and key user rights assignments. Active Directory includes several subadministrative groups that are created as a result of installing particular server roles, including account operators, backup operators, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol administrators and domain name system admins. The most powerful group in an Active Directory forest is the Enterprise Admins universal group followed by Schema Admins, which has the ability to modify the underlying attributes of any Active Directory object. Securing the Domain Admins membership is crucial to maintaining an effective security posture. User accounts can map to individual and service account identities where line-of-business applications run.Īctive Directory populates the local Administrators group - which contains every member server or client device - with the Domain Admins group. In an Active Directory domain, a privileged account is any security principal with elevated rights or permissions.
To get started, you must understand the types of privileged accounts to look for and the tools available to search the domain for each account.
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