Industrial Cybersecurity & OT Risk worked example

Privileged Account Review Load at 29% owner follow up and remediation allowance: a worked example

Suppose owner follow up and remediation allowance falls to 29%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate labor hours to review privileged OT accounts, shared accounts, vendor accounts, and administrator access.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Privileged OT accounts to review: 360 accounts (held at the documented default)
  • Privileged account review rate: 32 accounts / hr (held at the documented default)
  • Owner follow up and remediation allowance: 29 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 40)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Base privileged account review time = privileged OT accounts to review รท privileged account review rate.
  • Required privileged account review time works out to 14.51 hr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Base privileged account review time works out to 11.25 hr at these inputs.
  • Owner follow up and remediation allowance works out to 29 % at these inputs.
  • Privileged account review rate works out to 32 pieces / min at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where owner follow up and remediation allowance sits at 40% and the headline result is 15.75 hr, this scenario comes in 7.86% below the baseline at 14.51 hr.
  • It computes base review hours as accounts divided by review rate, then multiplies by an allowance factor to add owner follow-up and remediation time. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.

Results at a glance

  • Required privileged account review time: 14.51 hr (headline result)
  • Base privileged account review time: 11.25 hr
  • Owner follow up and remediation allowance: 29 %
  • Privileged account review rate: 32 pieces / min

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Privileged Account Review Load calculator, set owner follow up and remediation allowance to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.