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Someone signed up with a company card, connected it with broad OAuth scopes, used it for a quarter, and stopped. The subscription lapsed. The integration did not. Adopting a tool costs nothing; removing one requires someone to remember it exists.
The application said MFA was enforced everywhere. The compromised account did not have it. The policy did not fail you. The application did, months earlier, answered quickly under a renewal deadline.
Whatever they are granted on day two, they keep, because nothing removes it and asking for less is not a thing people do. The decisions get made by whoever is unblocking them at the time.
It was obviously right at eight people and nothing has forced a decision since. At some point the number who can read every customer's data stops being one you would say out loud, and nothing breaks to tell you.
Four tiers, a training slide, and no effect on anything anyone does on a Tuesday. The failure is not carelessness: the scheme asks for a judgement and then does nothing with the answer.
Usually you find out afterwards, when a report with eleven findings arrives asking for remediation dates. It goes badly more often than it should, because nobody decided in advance who owns it or what happens when a finding is wrong.
The demo tenant from the launch, the test user from a 2023 bug, the seed administrator that shipped with the first deployment. None appear on an access review, because reviews enumerate employees and these live in the product's own user table.
You skim the front, see an unqualified opinion, approve the vendor. The value is in four sections most reviewers never reach, and one of them lists the controls you are required to perform for the vendor's controls to work.
An auditor asks for change management evidence and the instinct is to build a change request form nobody will use. You already have the control, and it produces better evidence because it is generated by the work rather than alongside it.
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