Glossary: Monitoring Tools and the Identity Life Cycle

Global privileged account

Also written: global account, global

An account with administrative rights across the whole environment, such as Domain Admins, Entra Global Administrator or a cloud root user. Keep them very few and dedicated, protect them with phishing-resistant MFA and PAM, and grant them just in time.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 5: Account Types

Related terms

Privileged account Local privileged account Tiered administration PAM (privileged access management)Just-in-time access