A privileged user is a user of a particular system who, by virtue of occupation and/or seniority, has been designated powers within the computer system, which are considerably greater than those available to the majority of users. For e.g. cloud server managers, Systems administrators, Application or database administrators, and some Applications which themselves use privileged accounts to correspond with other applications, scripts, databases, web services, and more. These accounts are often ignored and are exposed to significant risk, as their credentials are hardcoded and static. Hackers can easily get access to these attack points to escalate privileged access throughout the organization.
