S2E60 - The Great Unmanaged

When contractors, partners, and “temporary” staff never really leave your environment, their access quietly becomes part of your infrastructure. In this episode, we walk through how non-employee identities accumulate around your core systems, why joiner-mover-leaver processes that stop at the HR boundary are no longer enough, and how “temporary” access turns into permanent risk. You will hear concrete patterns from cloud and SaaS environments, where vendor portals, support logins, and one-off project accounts slowly grow into a shadow perimeter that attackers see more clearly than you do.

We then shift into the leadership moves that actually change your ris...