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Right-sizing Global Administrators and Google Super Admins
Why standing Global Admin and Super Admin counts should stay between 2 and 4 accounts—and which delegated roles to use for daily IT work.
The 2-to-4 rule for top-tier cloud admins
Having only 1 Global Admin or Super Admin creates a single point of failure if that person is unavailable. Having more than 4 dramatically increases the likelihood that a daily-use account with standing god-mode privileges gets phished.
Separate daily accounts from administrative accounts
Assign helpdesk and IT engineers scoped roles such as User Administrator, Exchange Administrator, SharePoint Administrator, or Google Groups Admin—and keep Global Admin / Super Admin accounts unlicensed for daily email.