Chapter 5. Managing User Accounts

The weakest link in the security of an enterprise is its users. Your job as a security administrator is to implement the strongest security possible. Through user account management, you can introduce security controls that will help strengthen the security of your information systems.

The user account controls take the form of creating user accounts with a standardized template account to establish the baseline permissions, implementing a strong password policy, auditing failed logons to detect crack attacks, securing default accounts, and implementing Deny groups on sensitive content.