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| 2 | title: "Detecting & Removing Rogue Local Admin Accounts" |
| 3 | description: Validate and remediate unauthorized local admin changes. |
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| 5 | |
| 6 | **Video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJMUFMOXLY |
| 7 | |
| 8 | ## Goal |
| 9 | Validate a local admin change is unauthorized and remove rogue admin access. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | ## When to use |
| 12 | - Alerts indicating local account creation or group membership changes |
| 13 | |
| 14 | ## Prereqs |
| 15 | - Endpoint telemetry + identity context |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ## Procedure (high level) |
| 18 | 1) Validate who/what created the account or modified the group |
| 19 | 2) Confirm whether change is approved |
| 20 | 3) Remove unauthorized accounts / admin group entries |
| 21 | 4) Capture evidence and update the case |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ## Validation |
| 24 | - Rogue admin access removed |
| 25 | - No recurrence after monitoring window |