Access Granted, Control Lost: How Enterprise Permission Structures Collapse Under Their Own Weight
Enterprise organizations routinely build access control systems that function adequately at launch, only to find them unauditable and indefensible within eighteen months. Permission creep is not a user behavior problem — it is an architectural and governance failure that compounds silently until a breach or an audit forces a reckoning. This article examines why permission structures decay at scale and what sustainable access governance actually requires.