Sectona at Infosecurity Europe 2025 | June 3–5 | ExCeL London
Stop by our booth (Stand C 95) for live demo of Sectona’s Modern Infrastructure Access Platform
Privileged Account vs Normal Account
Ensure Security of accounts accessing Entitlements to their delegated privileges.
Definition of an Account: –
An account is the means of communication for establishing a connection between a user and an organisational resource, likely a computer or a network server. The accounts are responsible for the authentication of user and determining whether user has the permission to access the resource. An account generally requires a username, password and any information related to the user for authentication process.
Privileged Account: –
A privileged account refers to an account that has been entitled with administrative or specialised access across one or many systems on an enterprise network depending on the permission levels entitled to the user. A privileged account can be a named account or a generic account such as an administrator, a root account, router ‘en’ account or a database ownership account such as ‘sa’ and is needed by IT users for managing the functioning of a platform in an organisation. They are responsible to carry out daily tasks as well as activities in a Break-Glass scenario.
Normal Account: –
A normal account is a standard user account attributed to an end user with access rights specific to the work they have been tasked to. A normal account usually represents a Human Identity with a password that needs to be memorised, like an Active Directory Account. A Normal account gives a user the ability to access all utilities and software on his workstation, and are created for all users in the organisation like IT Users, Business Users, etc.
In some emergency situations, a Normal account can be elevated to a Privileged Account to perform some administrative tasks.
Differences between a Privileged Account and a Normal Account: –
Sectona PAM Solution: –
Sectona’s Privileged Access Management solution specifically caters to use of privileged accounts. In exceptional scenarios, for monitoring and secure access purposes, users may also be allowed to access normal accounts via PAM for increased governance and security. Here is a detailed preview of the accounts associated with different platforms.
