Least Privilege
If you ever take a certification exam, you may see this as principle of least privilege (PoLP) and even principle of least authority (PoLA). It is a concept that reduces the accidental or purposeful attack surface of an organization. There are several ways through access management you can use this concept to protect your ecosystem. In IT, we learn from others' mistakes.
About a decade ago, I was an administrator on a network with about 12,000 machines and 9,000 users. We used Group Policy in Windows to control the working environment. It was a way to centralize management of users' settings, applications, and operating systems in an Active Directory environment. We had someone new to the organization who was full of great ideas but was not aware of or willing to follow the change management procedures we had put in place to safeguard the network.
He changed a major feature in Group Policy that had catastrophic results. In the Event Viewer on a Windows machine...
