Cloud Identity & Access Review
Identity is the new perimeter. Comprehensive IAM review for AWS, Azure Entra ID, and GCP — least privilege analysis, privilege escalation path mapping, CIEM implementation, and machine identity governance.
IAM Review · Entitlements · Privileged Access
End-to-end cloud identity security from least privilege and privilege escalation discovery through CIEM implementation and privileged account governance.
Cloud IAM Privilege Review
Deep analysis of AWS IAM, Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), and GCP IAM policies — identifying over-privileged users and roles, dangerous permission combinations, and least-privilege violations across your entire cloud identity estate.
- Least privilege analysis across all identities
- Role and policy effective permission review
- MFA enforcement gap identification
- Unused key and stale credential cleanup
Cloud Entitlement Management
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) — implementing continuous monitoring and right-sizing of cloud entitlements to eliminate permission sprawl and enforce Just-in-Time access for human and non-human identities.
- Graph-based permission path analysis
- Permissions right-sizing implementation
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access setup
- Non-human and machine identity governance
Privileged Account Security
Securing your cloud's most powerful identities — root and global administrator accounts, emergency break-glass procedures, secrets management for service principals, and privilege creep elimination across federated identity systems.
- Root / global admin account security review
- Break-glass account procedure design
- Secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Service account and service principal hygiene
Identity Is the #1 Attack Surface in the Cloud
In the cloud, there is no perimeter in the traditional sense. An attacker with a valid cloud credential has as much access as the identity they've compromised. This makes identity security the single most critical discipline in cloud security — and the most neglected.
Our cloud identity review identifies the specific permissions that create risk, maps the escalation paths that sophisticated attackers would exploit, and provides a clear roadmap to enforce least privilege without disrupting operations.
Permission Sprawl
Eliminating the 3x over-permission gap that accumulates in every cloud environment over time.
Escalation Paths
Mapping multi-step permission chains that create hidden paths to cloud administrator access.
Stale Credentials
Identifying and revoking unused access keys, tokens, and credentials that remain active indefinitely.
Shadow Admins
Discovering identities with effective admin-level access not obvious from their assigned policies.
5-Phase Cloud Identity Review
From complete identity enumeration and least privilege gap analysis through escalation path discovery. non-human identity review, and remediation roadmap delivery.
Identity Inventory & Mapping
Complete enumeration of all identity types — human users, service principals, managed identities, instance profiles, and federated identities — across all cloud accounts and subscriptions. We map the effective permissions of every identity.
Least Privilege Gap Analysis
Calculating the gap between granted permissions and actively used permissions for each identity over a meaningful usage window (typically 90 days). This identifies the precise over-privilege that should be removed from each user and role.
Privilege Escalation Path Discovery
Graph-based analysis of the complete permission set to identify non-obvious privilege escalation paths — combinations of permissions that individually seem harmless but together allow an attacker to gain administrative access.
Non-Human Identity Security Review
Focused review of service accounts, workload identity credentials, instance profiles, CI/CD pipeline tokens, and Lambda execution roles — the machine identities that are most frequently misconfigured and least frequently reviewed.
Findings Report & Remediation Roadmap
Comprehensive findings report with least privilege recommendations per identity, privilege escalation path visualizations, CIEM implementation guidance, and a phased roadmap for JIT access and machine identity governance.
End-to-End Cloud Identity Coverage
From effective permission analysis and privilege escalation mapping through MFA review, machine identity governance, secrets management, and compliance reporting.
Effective Permission Analysis
Calculating the actual effective permissions of every identity — accounting for policy inheritance, permission boundaries, service control policies (SCPs), and conditional access rules.
Privilege Escalation Mapping
Graph-based discovery of permission combinations that create escalation paths to administrative access — identifying attack chains that human review and static policy analysis consistently misses.
MFA & Authentication Review
Verifying MFA enforcement for all human identities across AWS, Azure Entra ID, and GCP — including phishing-resistant MFA assessment and conditional access policy coverage gaps.
Machine Identity Governance
Reviewing service accounts, managed identities, workload identity credentials, and CI/CD pipeline tokens — ensuring each non-human identity follows least privilege and is subject to rotation policies.
Secrets Management Review
Assessing how secrets (API keys, passwords, certificates) are generated, stored, rotated, and revoked across AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, and HashiCorp Vault.
Compliance Reporting
Generating identity and access governance evidence mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA requirements — supporting audit submissions with attestable access control documentation.
Identity Security Beyond the Console
Effective IAM security requires understanding how permissions combine and interact — not just reviewing individual policies in isolation. We use graph-based analysis to see the full picture.
Multi-Cloud Identity Depth
Deep expertise across AWS IAM, Azure Entra ID (including Azure AD B2C and external identities), and GCP IAM — not just surface-level checks of each platform's console.
Graph-Based Analysis
We use graph-based permission analysis to identify privilege escalation paths that are invisible to policy-by-policy review — presenting attack paths that auditors and security teams consistently overlook.
Machine Identity Focus
Non-human identities are the fastest growing and least reviewed attack surface in cloud environments. We give machine identity governance equal priority to human identity review.
CIEM Implementation
We go beyond assessment — we implement CIEM solutions that provide continuous entitlement monitoring, right-sizing recommendations, and JIT access workflows for ongoing governance.
Identity Security Tools We Use
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about cloud IAM and identity security reviews
Know Who Can Do What — In Your Cloud
74% of breaches start with compromised identity. An IAM review gives you a complete picture of permission exposure across every human and machine identity in your cloud — and a roadmap to close the gaps.
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