EP-A-01Level 1 · Signal
Local admin rights on endpoints
- Access
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
An Access signal from the endpoint inventory (EDR, local admin inventory): this person holds local administrator rights on one or more devices.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- PR.AA-05
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1078
The definition, in detail
Definition
Malware that runs under their account runs with full control of the machine.
Example
A developer keeps admin rights on his laptop to install build tools; a malicious package he runs can disable the endpoint agent without a prompt.
How it is measured
- Source
- Endpoint protection
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Local admin inventory
- Risk domain
- Endpoint and device
- Provenance
- Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Local admin rights on endpoints" per person from Endpoint protection and read it beside the other Endpoint and device signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "local admin rights on endpoints" record is evidence of what the person could expose (the access side of the model). It describes reach; it records no action by the person and no attack under way.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
"Local admin rights on endpoints" (EP-A-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ep-a-01-local-admin-rights-on-endpoints
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
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.