Example Of Least Privilege

Hi Professor / Danielle / Class,
In the Information Technology industry, we utilize ‘least privilege’ on a daily basis. Believe the idea is to limit security rights and only grant higher level access when necessary to limit accidental and intentioned damaging activity. The latest Microsoft and Apple operating systems do prompt you for administrative rights when changing a configuration or installing software. In the open source world you would have to be granted sudo privileges to the root account when configuring or installing.
At my workplace, I have seen many examples of ‘least privilege’ being utilized. When a vendor needs to access SQL studio, our database administrator would grant them ‘SA” (system admin) rights to allow them to make