In today's turbulent technological environment it's becoming increasingly crucial for
companies to know about the principle of least privilege. These organizations often have the
best security software money can buy with equally developed policies with which to execute
them but they fail to take into account the weakest link in their implementation: human
nature. Despite all other efforts people can sway from what they should be doing. Preventing
Good People from doing Bad Things drives that concept home to business executives auditors
and IT professionals alike. Instead of going through the step-by-step process of implementation
the book points out the implications of allowing users to run with unlimited administrator
rights discusses the technology and supplementation of Microsoft's Group Policy and dives
into the different environments least privilege affects such as Unix and Linux servers and
databases. Readers will learn ways to protect virtual environments how to secure multi-tenancy
for the cloud information about least privilege for applications and how compliance enters
the picture. The book also discusses the cost advantages of preventing good people from doing
bad things. Each of the chapters emphasizes the need auditors business executives and IT
professionals all have for least privilege and discuss in detail the tensions and solutions it
takes to implement this principle. Each chapter includes data from technology analysts
including Forrester Gartner IDC and Burton along with analyst and industry expert
quotations.
