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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges. The result was that it was straightforward, at times elementary, for malicious software to own the entire system. In truth, we ignore least privilege at our peril.

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