who can reach what in yourt systems, and why?
Identity is the layer every other control sits on. When you can't answer who can reach what, every decision above it is a guess.
We help you see what's there, fix what's wrong, and keep it that way.
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still have access to a former employer's account
Beyond Identity
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Microsoft
of users have elevated privileges unnecessary for their roles
Beyond Identity
start with the question
Ask who can reach your most sensitive systems today, and why. In most growing companies the honest answer is a pause, then a guess, because access only ever gets added.
People join and get permissions, change roles and get more, and the removals depend on a process that often doesn't run. Over a few years the directory stops reflecting who is actually in the building.
It shows in the numbers. 83% of people say they still have access to at least one account from a previous employer (Beyond Identity, 2022).
Identity is a visibility problem before it's anything else. Below are the recurring versions of it. Start wherever matches what you're seeing.
joiners, movers, leavers
The most consistent failure point in access is the day someone leaves, when a removal is meant to happen and so often doesn't.
when access piles up
Permissions accumulate far past what anyone's current job needs, and nobody goes back to look.
the non-human identities
Your largest identity population isn't your workforce. Machine identities outnumber human ones by roughly 82 to 1, and nearly half hold privileged access (CyberArk, 2025).
the controls
Your largest identity population isn't your workforce. Machine identities outnumber human ones by roughly 82 to 1, and nearly half hold privileged access (CyberArk, 2025).
our guides on identity and access
How to choose tooling for non-human and machine identity security
Non-human identities: securing service accounts, workload identities, and AI agents
The complete guide to IT offboarding
How to run a user access review: process, cadence, and evidence
Access governance buyer's guide: choosing IGA without over-buying
Ghost accounts: finding the access former employees still have
let's start with a conversation
Most first conversations start with not quite knowing what you have or where to begin. That's normal, and it's exactly where we're useful.
Tell us what prompted this. An upcoming audit, an incident, a client's security questionnaire, or just a sense that things have gotten messy.
We'll take it from there
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