Synthèse
Identity is no longer confined to a single system. In modern environments, identity spans multiple platforms: Active Directory, Okta, Entra, GitHub, and others; each operating within its own environment, with its own model for authentication and access. These systems are connected through federation, synchronization, and single sign-on. Each connection serves a legitimate purpose, enabling organizations to manage identity centrally while extending access across platforms. But these connections a
Identity is no longer confined to a single system. In modern environments, identity spans multiple platforms: Active Directory, Okta, Entra, GitHub, and others; each operating within its own environment, with its own model for authentication and access. These systems are connected through federation, synchronization, and single sign-on. Each connection serves a legitimate purpose, enabling organizations to manage identity centrally while extending access across platforms. But these connections also introduce something else.
They create relationships between systems that are seldom evaluated as a whole. These relationships are implicit, distributed across teams, and not well understood in aggregate. They don’t exist cleanly within any one platform; they emerge in the gaps between them. Those gaps are where attackers can operate with the least visibility, and where risk is least understood.