A lot of data breaches start with attacks on privileged service accounts. Finding out where SQL Server service accounts are being used is an important step in proactive security lockdown of your corporate network.
Action1 is a free Cloud-based Endpoint Security Platform. Among hundreds of other built-in features, it allows to automate the discovery of SQL Server service accounts used on endpoints. After the discovery is done, you can manage service account passwords and perform other maintenance operations. This article explains how to list SQL Server service accounts using Action1 to find service accounts in domain and also shows how to list service accounts from command line for organizations that are not able to utilize Action1 in their environments.