“Enterprises are running complex, interdependent technology estates where privileged access underpins stability, recovery, and continuity,” he says. “In many environments, privileged access was granted years ago to support systems that no longer have clear owners, clean documentation, or modern authentication paths. That access now props up integrations, batch jobs, recovery scripts, vendor tooling, and fragile automation chains.”
Moreover, Gogia sees enterprises maintaining this status quo on privileges because reining it in “feels less like tightening security and more like introducing existential operational risk.”
“They are choosing predictability over disruption,” he explains. “Always-on privilege becomes the safest option in environments where architectural certainty no longer exists. It accumulates quietly over time as systems evolve faster than governance models. Mergers, cloud migrations, outsourcing, platform layering, and emergency fixes all leave behind privileged identities that nobody revisits. Over years, this creates an estate where privilege is deeply embedded into how work gets done.”
