Shared privileged credentials break ownership, revocation, and accountability at the same time. If one secret grants access to several systems, a single exposure can create a broad compromise path, and it becomes difficult to know which business function actually depends on it. That is how credential sprawl turns into uncontrolled blast radius.
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