By Sasi Murthy, Stack Identity Shadow Access is unauthorised, invisible, unsafe and generally over permissioned access that has grown along with cloud identities, apps and data. Today, identities, human and nonhuman are automatically created, along with access pathways to cloud data. Current tools are blind to many cloud identities and access pathways, creating vulnerabilities that are exploited to breach cloud data. Shadow access breaks cloud and data security, audit, compliance and governance.