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Should Application Administrators be considered as Privileged Accounts?
Short Answer
Yes.
Full Answer
Literature Review
In Royer, 2010, Royer explains how the introduction of Enterprise Identity Management Systems (EIdMS) in organizations is expensive and challenging for organizations beyond technological matters. He explains that EIdMS investments are of a hybrid nature situated between security and productive IT and stresses the importance of identifying and onboarding stakeholders early on in the project. As part of this research, integrators, vendors and users have been interviewed and a high-level classification of IAM stakeholders has been established from these. Interestingly, the Actual Users category expressly contains both the business users and application administrators distinctively from the IT department.
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