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Cyber Academy course

Admin account hygiene

A 18-minute Cyber Academy course for technology team. Shrink the number of accounts that can take down the district: separate daily and admin accounts, keep break-glass, service and vendor accounts under control, and run a quarterly privileged access review you can show as evidence. 7 sections, 8-question knowledge check, a branching practice scenario and a completion certificate. The companion guide gives managers the outline, a huddle plan and the answer key.

Time to use
18-minute course
Audience
Technology teams
Language
English
Formats
PDF
First page preview of Admin account hygiene

What's inside

  • Section: The summer audit nobody wanted to do
  • Section: Separate accounts and least privilege
  • Section: Break-glass accounts done right
  • Section: Service accounts, local admin and the password vault
  • Section: Vendor and remote support access
  • Section: Offboarding, the quarterly review and admin sign-in alerts
  • Section: Your 30-minute admin hygiene sprint
  • 8-question knowledge check with explanations
  • Branching scenario: The contractor who wants permanent global admin
  • Completion certificate (named accounts)
  • Printable companion guide with facilitator notes and answer key

Learners will be able to

  • Separate daily and admin accounts and assign admin roles by task under least privilege
  • Set up, store, monitor and test break-glass accounts
  • Inventory service accounts and control vendor, remote support and local admin access
  • Run a quarterly privileged access review with a worksheet and complete same-day offboarding
  • Alert on admin sign-ins and changes that signal misuse

More pages

How to use and print

The course runs in Cyber Academy; this companion guide prints double-sided on Letter for managers and facilitators.

Participating districts download the same files co-branded with their own name and logo, and the QR codes count scans for their campaign reports.

Supports these rubric areas

  • Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management
  • NIST CSF PR.AA
  • NIST CSF DE.CM
  • NIST CSF GV.SC

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