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OAuth grants pile up faster than you can review them. Here's how to keep up.

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OAuth grants pile up faster than you can review them. Here's how to keep up.

OAuth grants enable data sharing between SaaS applications, artificial intelligence (AI) agents, and tools, but accumulate at a pace that outstrips security team review capacity. Attackers exploit forgotten or unreviewed OAuth grants to gain access to corporate data, as demonstrated in recent incidents. Organizations struggle to manage and audit the growing number of these permissions.

Why it matters: Security teams and identity practitioners face rising risk from unmonitored OAuth grants that attackers actively target to breach corporate systems and exfiltrate data; regular audits and revocation policies are now critical controls.

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