Collaboration is the heartbeat of your business. It’s how deals get done, how partners stay aligned, and how you keep growth on track. 

But the same tools that let you collaborate might also be the fastest way to burn your business to the ground. 

Trying to get work done quickly, you invite a trusted partner—maybe your CPA, maybe a software vendor—into your digital workspace. You spin up a neat little “guest account,” feeling secure because hey, it’s limited, right? 

Except it isn’t. 

Right now, security researchers are sounding the alarm about guest accounts in Microsoft Entra ID (the artist formerly known as Azure AD). Turns out, these “guests” can be manipulated to quietly promote themselves—gaining full-blown owner privileges inside your environment. 

No phone call. No extra approvals. No blinking red lights. 

Just like that, your polite guest becomes a silent admin. They can: 

  • Turn off your security tools. 
  • Cover their tracks. 
  • Create persistent backdoors so they (or someone worse) can waltz back in anytime they want. 

And you? You won’t have a clue until your data’s gone, your bank accounts are drained, or your biggest clients are calling to say they’re moving on—because they can’t trust you to keep their information safe. 

Every unsecured guest account is an unlocked back door: https://youtube.com/shorts/icX-izJrUTs 

Maybe it’s your partner’s negligence. Maybe it’s a hacker who compromised their credentials. Either way, the moment you invited them in, your liability shot through the roof. 

Because when it all goes sideways—and eventually, it does—it won’t matter that you trusted them. It won’t matter that they were “only supposed to see one folder.” 

All that matters is this: 

Your name is on the door. The consequences is yours to pay for. 

Here’s your choice: 

  • Hope your guests behave, stay squeaky clean, and never get compromised. 
  • Or lock it down before someone makes your company the next headline. 

Get a third-party assessment. 

Not by your internal team, not by the same people who built your system—but by someone who shows up to find problems, not sweep them under the rug. We’ll tell you exactly where your risk is hiding, especially in these guest accounts, so you can fix it before your polite collaboration turns into a financial dumpster fire. 

P.S. Has your provider talked to you about this at all? If not, that is a sure fire sign they aren’t paying attention.