I.0138Indicator
Misuses elevated privileges to access sensitive resources
Misuses admin accounts, often skipping approvals, which enables unauthorized changes or hidden control.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Category
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Mappings
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Indicators carry no mappings of their own; the signals in the same risk domain do.
Related signals (same domain, dimension and polarity)
8Cite this term
"Misuses elevated privileges to access sensitive resources" (I.0138), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/indicators/i-0138-misuses-elevated-privileges-to-access-sensitive-resources
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The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.