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Aaron Turner, president and chief security officer of HighSide, says: "One metric that I've been working with some of our consulting customers on is the enumeration of privileged users and user groups and critical intellectual property."
For example, he says: "Let's say that an enterprise has a server with a large amount of intellectual property stored on it. Begin by enumerating all of the IT operations staff who have access to the server storing critical IP. Sometimes this becomes difficult in large-scale enterprise environments, especially where nested groups are used to allow different IT operations teams to have access to the server for operations and maintenance purposes."
The end result, says Turner, should be a clear understanding of who has access to critical IP assets, and how that needs to be modified for better protection going forward.
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