Picture this: In a major corporation, a security incident sets off alarm bells. The cause? A seemingly routine personnel change. An employee with privileged access to sensitive data in Google Cloud Platform through their Google Workspace account was reassigned to an Azure project. Because the company's Azure environment trusted the same Active Directory credentials, the employee inadvertently retained similar privileged access rights across platforms. This oversight exposed a critical gap in cross-platform identity management—where access controls from one cloud environment failed to properly translate to another.