{"id":3029,"date":"2026-01-20T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=3029"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:58:00","slug":"the-hidden-risk-of-orphan-accounts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/?page_id=3029","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem: The Identities Left Behind<br \/>\nAs organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go &#8211; but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or \u201corphan\u201d accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles.<br \/>\nThe reason they persist isn\u2019t negligence &#8211; it\u2019s fragmentation.\u00a0<br \/>\nTraditional IAM and IGA systems are designed<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Problem: The Identities Left Behind As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go &#8211; but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or \u201corphan\u201d accounts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3030,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3029","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infosec-daily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}