The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts in Growing Organizations

Orphan accounts pose a hidden risk within growing organizations. These abandoned accounts belong to former employees, contractors, services, and systems that are no longer active but whose access persists in applications, platforms, cloud assets, and consoles. The issue is not due to negligence but rather the fragmentation of systems. Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions are inadequately designed to address this problem.