Legacy anti-patterns

Password Sharing

Password sharing is the use of the same human or technical credential by multiple actors.

Definition

Password sharing occurs when a credential is known or used by more than one person or component. This removes accountability, weakens traceability, increases compromise impact, and makes it difficult to know who performed which action.

The Ariovis perspective

Privileged security should begin by reducing standing privilege, governing accounts and automating grants and revocations. Vaults, bastions and session controls are reserved for the use cases that genuinely need them.

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