The Standing Grant: One Approval, a Permanent AI Grant, No Human Named

One approval, a permanent grant. In this scenario, an application administrator approves an AI inbox-and-meeting assistant through its vendor's onboarding link. The consent is tenant-wide and never expires, so the assistant signs in as a shared service account. Every read is logged, but no human is named. Regulators don't ask whether an access was logged. They ask who reached the data, and whether that person was authorized.

This AI Interaction Data Fabric Insights teardown (AIDF-004) reads four sources together, inside a grant-to-exercise window of under 24 hours:

• Application Identity Management: the tenant-wide grant and the shared-account sign-in
• Directory Log: the grant in use, starting with a full directory enumeration
• Content Audit: the file reads, including documents carrying a Confidential label
• Kovrr AI Vendor Risk Catalog: a vendor with no verified publisher, SOC 2 Type II report or DPA

The correlation fires on three conditions: a permanent, tenant-wide grant, a shared account as the principal, and an unassessed vendor. Only triangulation establishes it, as one finding a board can act on. The response follows: revoke fast, then scope, then fix the policy.

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