Privileged access management
Local Administrator Account
A Local Administrator Account is a privileged account with administrative rights limited to a workstation or server instance.
Definition
A Local Administrator Account is an account with elevated rights over a specific machine, allowing actions such as configuration change, software installation, or service management. Even when scoped locally, such accounts are privileged because compromise of a single host can be used as a foothold for broader attacks.
The Ariovis perspective
Least privilege is an operating model, not a one-off cleanup. Access must be justified, limited in scope and duration, traceable and removable when the context changes.
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