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NASA’s Management of Elevated Privileges for Information Systems

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Elevated privileges grant users broad authority to modify configurations, access sensitive data, and control critical system functions of NASA information systems. IT privileges can pose security risks if not properly controlled. In the two elevated privileges accounts that we reviewed, we determined the Agency is effectively managing which users get administrative rights to NASA-provided computers.