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> The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 20/01/2026 11:58] [LANGUAGE: EN]
The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts
The Problem: The Identities Left Behind As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go - but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles. The reason they persist isn’t negligence - it’s fragmentation.  Traditional IAM and IGA systems are designed
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