Last month, while running a routine access audit on our Azure environment, I came across a service account called svc-dataloader-poc. It had not been touched in 793 days — two years of sitting dormant. When I checked its permissions, my stomach dropped: Owner-level access to three production subscriptions, including our customer database. The account had been spun up for a proof-of-concept migration that never went live. The contractor who created it left 18 months ago. Nobody knew it existed. This was not a one-off. I found 47 similar accounts in that same audit. Forty-seven doors left wide open. Here is the uncomfortable reality facing every security leader in 2026: while we spent the last...