The Principle of Least Privilege: A Practical Guide for Cybersecurity Professionals

Hey Hackers!!!

Hope You’re Doing well, Welcome to the new Episode of Cybersecurity Fundamentals, today we gonna discuss about a very simple but most complex principle in the field of cybersecurity, that is The Principle of Least Privilege.

In Simple words, Principle of Least Privilege is a security concept that ensures that the users, application are given no more than necessary rights & permission in order to perform their functions and tasks. This sound’s like a very commonsense approach for security while we discuss and when seen on papers and documentations, but it becomes complicated when it come to implementation of this in an actual organization environment.

Let’s Understand the complexity that comes when we implement this principle in an organizational environment, beginning with a single user, any employee within the organization needs basis permission and rights with respect to both physical and logical access, physically employee might need access to the building they work in, common areas, and other organization resources. Logically, employee might need access to all the applications, file servers, Office 365 Applications and any other application or service that might need to perform their tasks, Now multiply all of these permission to thousands of employees different employees needs access to different work locations, Moreover, different users will need different rights & permission for application and…