cloud-iam-review

Cloud IAM auditing automates the detection of over-permissioned identities, wildcard grants, and public access across AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure least privilege. It traces privilege-escalation paths and flags unused credentials to reduce cloud compromise risk.

Identity risk assessment identifies over-permissioned identities by comparing assigned permissions against actual usage. It flags dangerous wildcard actions, admin roles, and public principals across your cloud environments to highlight excess privileges.

External exposure analysis identifies public principals, cross-account or cross-tenant trust policies, and federated identities within your IAM configurations. It reviews external access paths to prevent unintended data exposure from misconfigured trust relationships.

Credential hygiene review checks for long-lived access keys, verifies MFA enforcement on privileged users, and monitors root or break-glass account usage. This process identifies dormant credentials that violate least privilege principles and increase compromise risk.

Tracing privilege-escalation paths requires valid AWS, Azure, or GCP credentials with read access to IAM policies. The audit uses these credentials to map routes from low-privilege to high-privilege identities, exposing potential takeover vectors.

Automated IAM risk assessment should run during onboarding, periodic compliance checks, or after major infrastructure changes. It detects unused permissions and escalation paths early, ensuring continuous least privilege enforcement across dynamic cloud environments.