CyberDesk Whitepaper

The Identity Risk Blind Spot

Why access governance programmes fail before they start and five patterns that give it away. Written from 20 years working in enterprise data security.

Stephan Atkins

Sales Director at CyberDesk

20 years in enterprise data security

stephan.atkins@cyberdesk.app

Last updated: 20 October 2026 • 10 mins Reading Time

How Much of Your Identity Estate Is Putting You at Risk?

Could the 95% of unused permissions in your environment be leaving your organisation exposed? Can you identify every active identity across your organisation, including service accounts, API keys, automation tokens and AI agents, and prove that each has the right access for the right reasons?

Identity is the new security perimeter. Yet while organisations invest in IAM, PAM and threat detection, a critical blind spot remains: identities that accumulate excessive permissions, outlive their owners or operate without clear oversight.

Inside our whitepaper, The Identity Risk Blind Spot, you’ll discover:

The five common identity security failure patterns that often go unnoticed until an incident or audit exposes them.
Why traditional security tools, including IAM platforms, PAM solutions and SIEMs, leave critical gaps.
What a mature identity risk programme looks like, and how to move from periodic access reviews to continuous visibility and control.

The question is simple: If an auditor asked you to account for every active human and non-human identity in your environment by the next working day, could you?

Ready to uncover your identity security blind spots?

Download the whitepaper to uncover hidden risks, challenge your assumptions, and take action to strengthen your identity risk management.

Gründer

Dr. Tobias Lieberum & Prabhakar Mishra

Jahr der Gründung

2022

Hauptsitz

München, Deutschland

Über CyberDesk

CyberDesk wurde 2022 mit Sitz in München gegründet und wird von Dr. Tobias Lieberum und Prabhakar Mishra geleitet. In ihren früheren Karrieren in sensiblen Umgebungen im Bankwesen und in der Beratung haben die Gründer aus erster Hand erfahren, welche Herausforderungen der sichere Datenzugriff in der Cloud mit sich bringt. In Ermangelung einer zufriedenstellenden Lösung beschlossen sie, diese globale Bedrohung selbst zu lösen.