Access Decisions: The Weakest Link in Identity Security
🔐 Longstanding identity programs have largely solved authentication with MFA and SSO, but authorization — the decisions about what authenticated identities can do — remains fragile and undergoverned. The article highlights a persistent denominator problem: many assets, cloud tenants, service accounts and shadow IT tools fall outside centralized visibility, so coverage metrics can be misleading. Effective risk reduction requires context-rich, accountable access decisions and stronger governance of non-human and third-party identities to avoid rubber-stamp approvals and excessive blast radius.