abus de comptes à privilèges

English translation: abuse of privileged accounts

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French term or phrase:abus de comptes à privilèges
English translation:abuse of privileged accounts
Entered by: Ed Ashley

10:32 Feb 4, 2016
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French term or phrase: abus de comptes à privilèges
This phrase is included in a document on how to protect email accounts. The full sentence is "La malveillance et l'indiscrétion internes, rendues possible par abus de comptes à privilèges".

I am confused by "comptes à privilèges". What would make sense to me is "misuse of account privileges" but this doesn't seem to be quite the right translation.

My only other thought is that the à should be an et - accounts and privileges.

Am I missing something?
Louise TAYLOR
France
Local time: 02:43
abuse/misuse of privileged accounts
Explanation:
As far as I can see, the literal translation is perfectly valid here:

"Les comptes à privilèges représentent des cibles de choix pour les attaquants du Système d'Information."

http://www.itpro.fr/a/proteger-comptes-privileges-si/

"Cyber attackers exploit privileged accounts every day, in organizations of all sizes."

http://www.cyberark.com/securing-privileged-accounts-best-pr...

Also see http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2013/05/16/grasp...

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The latter link provides the following definition: "A privileged account is how administrators log in to servers, switches, firewalls, routers, database servers, and the many applications they must manage. Many of these systems are not within a Windows domain and by default allow simple username/password pairs to log in."
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Ed Ashley
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Local time: 01:43
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4 +2abuse/misuse of privileged accounts
Ed Ashley
4 -1misuse of privileged accounts
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this link might come in handy
Louisa Tchaicha

  

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misuse of privileged accounts


Explanation:
For example, somebody has an administrator account and uses it to find the personal details of somebody they are interested in.

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Note added at 14 mins (2016-02-04 10:47:15 GMT)
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It can also be somebody misusing somebody else's account.

Terry Richards
France
Local time: 02:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 111

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: no need for this kind of silly euphemisms used to avoid bruising sensitive junkies' ego - these people are plain and simple abusing accounts they shouldn't be accessing ...
1 day 14 hrs
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
abuse/misuse of privileged accounts


Explanation:
As far as I can see, the literal translation is perfectly valid here:

"Les comptes à privilèges représentent des cibles de choix pour les attaquants du Système d'Information."

http://www.itpro.fr/a/proteger-comptes-privileges-si/

"Cyber attackers exploit privileged accounts every day, in organizations of all sizes."

http://www.cyberark.com/securing-privileged-accounts-best-pr...

Also see http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2013/05/16/grasp...

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Note added at 15 mins (2016-02-04 10:48:17 GMT)
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The latter link provides the following definition: "A privileged account is how administrators log in to servers, switches, firewalls, routers, database servers, and the many applications they must manage. Many of these systems are not within a Windows domain and by default allow simple username/password pairs to log in."

Ed Ashley
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:43
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you for your help.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  James A. Walsh
1 hr
  -> Thank you, James

agree  Daryo: abuse
1 day 14 hrs
  -> Thanks, Daryo. Yes, 'abuse' is most appropriate here.
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Reference: this link might come in handy

Reference information:
file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/survey-cyberarks-2015-global-advanced-threat-landscape-09-30-15.pdf



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Note added at 1 day20 hrs (2016-02-06 06:46:09 GMT)
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I'm sorry Louise, as Daryo kindly pointed out, I made a silly mistake:
http://www.dit.co.jp/products/cyber-ark/pdf/survey-cyberarks...

Louisa Tchaicha
Tunisia
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
disagree  Daryo: this link might come in handy? Hardly, it's not a link, it's the location of the file downloaded on your computer ... you meant this one? http://www.dit.co.jp/products/cyber-ark/pdf/survey-cyberarks...
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