What are the risks of unmanaged privileged accounts?

Unmanaged privileged accounts are one of the most dangerous conditions in any IT environment. They are frequently targeted by attackers through credential theft, phishing, and brute-force attacks because a single successful compromise can provide domain-level access to your entire environment. Common issues include unused administrative accounts that were never disabled, shared admin credentials known to multiple employees, service accounts with excessive permissions and privileged access granted without MFA. G6 audits privileged accounts during onboarding and implements controls to systematically eliminate these risks.