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To audit service accounts, you identify and inventory accounts across AD, cloud IAM, databases, and apps, then assess ownership, privileges, and password posture to classify risk and generate a remediation report.

Identifying orphaned and over-privileged service accounts involves assessing ownership, last activity, and interactive logon records to classify risk and propose concrete mitigations aligned with least-privilege controls.

Detecting Kerberoast and gMSA candidates is part of the inventory process, discovering service accounts across AD, cloud IAM, databases, and applications to assess their password posture and privilege levels.

Generating a compliance audit report for service accounts aligned with NIST, PCI DSS, or SOX involves classifying account risks and delivering actionable remediation steps to enforce rotation and least-privilege controls.

Inventorying service accounts before enforcing password rotation requires access to AD, cloud IAM, databases, and applications to assess current password posture, ownership, and interactive logon activity for risk classification.

Service account audits are error-prone when ownership, privileges, and rotation policies are scattered across Active Directory, cloud IAM, databases, and applications, making centralized inventory and risk assessment essential.