The Real Problem with Emergency Access In enterprise environments—especially those that operate 24×7—there are moments when someone needs elevated access immediately. A critical service fails. A major incident occurs. Business continuity is at risk. In these moments, organizations rely on breakglass accounts to bypass normal access controls and restore order.

Most enterprises didn’t implement MFA wrong. They implemented it lazily.   The default approach is simple: “If MFA is good, always-on MFA must be better.”   In reality, this is where security starts to fail.   When users are challenged every single time — same device, same location, same behavior

Breaches rarely begin with zero-day exploits or sophisticated malware. More often, they start with something far more ordinary and far more preventable. An account that should have been removed, but wasn’t. THE SILENT RISK NOBODY OWNS Every organisation believes it has offboarding under control. HR completes the exit. IT disables

1.The Situation: A Real Login, Not a Red-Team Exercise This wasn’t a simulated phishing drill. This wasn’t a penetration test finding. It was a real login attempt into a bank’s internal application. A relationship manager’s credentials had been compromised through a targeted phishing email. The attacker didn’t just have the

The Problem We Keep Hearing: “We don’t have a single place to manage identities across Windows, Linux, and macOS.” On paper, most organisations believe they have directory services “covered.”In reality, identity is fractured along operating system lines. Windows identities live in Active Directory Linux users are managed locally or through scattered SSH

1. The Context: Authentication Has Become Uniform, But Risk Is Not Most organisations still enforce a flat authentication model: Every employee, every device, every application → the same SSO login + the same MFA. This uniformity feels simple, but it’s dangerously outdated. Enterprises today operate: Multiple application types (internal, SaaS,