The dev/production boundary in large companies is much more porous than people like to think. Consider a typical day: you log in to your pc, check email, then u

The dev/production boundary in large companies is much more porous than people like to think. Consider a typical day: you log in to your pc, check email, then use the same creds to log in to your azure portal (after all, all backed by the same tenant). Your account is linked to github and your cloud account. Groups and teams get created all over the place, with mysterious permissions, just so that you can play in Teams, or OneDrive, and these persist in the company directory almost indistinguishable from security groups. Sometimes you get automated emails asking you if you still need something, but the messages are opaque, and in a really big company there's no-one you can really ask (helpdesk takes 2 days to get back to you, and what are you gonna do, hit up John Savill on Twitter?), so you hit ok and try to carry on. Inevitably, the fabric starts to rend, and an attacker gets lucky at a weak spot and can jump sideways through the tenant to get what they want. As a wise CISO once said, hackers dont break in, they log in.