By Microsoft Security
How many permissions exist within your current technology suite? If your organization is anything like the millions of other companies that deploy cloud services, that number could be in the tens of thousands.
There are more than 40,000 permissions across the key cloud platforms alone, and many of these permissions aren’t even utilized fully. The Microsoft Security 2023 State of Cloud Permissions Risks Report found that identities are using only 1% of the permissions for which they’re authorized. This has created a dangerous phenomenon known as the permissions gap. The bigger this gap between permissions granted and used gets, the larger the potential attack surface a company faces.
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