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AI Least Privilege: We Never Got It Right for Humans | Itamar Apelblat

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Itamar Apelblat was called back to reserve duty with Unit 8200 and spent hours waiting on access approvals. Then he remembered a service account his old team had set up seven years earlier. The password was a funny one, which is why he still knew it. He typed it in and became an admin on one of the most secure networks in the world. Nobody had changed that password. They hadn't forgotten about it. They were scared to touch it, because no one knew what would break. Now put that same fear in ...

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