Security News > 2021 > February > Learn How to Manage and Secure Active Directory Service Accounts
What is a service account? What special privileges does it have on local systems? What cybersecurity risks can relate to service accounts used in the environment? How can IT admins find weak or non-expiring passwords used in Active Directory for service accounts?
As mentioned at the outset, specific Active Directory accounts serve different purposes in Active Directory Domain Services.
You can assign Active Directory accounts as service accounts, a special-purpose account that most organizations create and use to run Windows services located on Windows Servers in their environment.
Active Directory domain user account - A domain user account that resides in Active Directory Domain Services is the preferred type of account for a Windows Service.
Keep in mind that Active Directory domain user accounts used for Windows Service accounts should never be a member of administrator groups.
With the number of Windows Service accounts found in most environments, it can become difficult to manage service accounts with expiring passwords.