Industry voice: Excessive 'privilege' is still a gaping security hole

Brian, for the uninitiated, what exactly are 'admin rights' and privilege management?For most purposes, admin rights can be loosely defined as being the set of rights granted to either a root user (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) or an administrator account (Windows), as opposed to standard user rights.One of the biggest security issues in organisations is that admin rights are given too often and for a couple of common reasons: first, many users want to have control over their own desktops (who wants to