At the core of the privileged user problem is this dichotomy: With greater access to a company's computer assets comes greater security risk. The privileged user can be a company's security enforcer but also its greatest security risk. Put another way, if a privileged user wants to do bad things, their elevated access to the company network - and all the information that entails -- makes it easier for them. Further, because of the access they maintain to their organization's most confidential information, they become high value targets to corporate "hacktivists" and persistent adversaries eager to penetrate a company's defenses.