Why Access Reviews Are Broken And Nobody Wants to Admit It
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Access reviews are everywhere. Quarterly cycles. Audit requirements. Approval workflows. Compliance dashboards. They’re treated as one of the most critical controls in Identity and Access Management (IAM). And yet breaches still happen. Permissions keep expanding. Admin access quietly accumulates. So it’s worth asking: Are access reviews actually improving security or just creating the appearance of it? The Control That Looks Good on Paper On paper, access reviews are simple and logical: