AWS & GCP IAM Security
Principle of least privilege, role delegation, multi-cloud permissions, and access auditing.
Cloud posture management, container security, zero-trust architectures, and network boundaries.
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Principle of least privilege, role delegation, multi-cloud permissions, and access auditing.
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Automate S3 public‑access detection with Config/GuardDuty and remediate via EventBridge‑Lambda, IaC guards, and nightly drift scans.
IaC scanning tools like Checkov and tfsec lint Terraform code for security issues; integrate them via CI steps and remember to enable experimental policies in Checkov.
Secure Kubernetes pod-to-pod communications using Cilium Network Policies by leveraging eBPF for identity-based L3/L4 and L7 enforcement, defining granular ingress/egress rules bas
Enable rate‑limit and anomaly‑detection modules, set thresholds just above baseline, and whitelist health‑check IPs to avoid false positives.
CSPM tools auto‑scan cloud APIs, evaluate policy code, and trigger remediation to keep multi‑cloud security posture continuously aligned.
Immutable pipelines combine signed images, SBOM validation, and declarative IaC to enforce zero‑trust deployments.
Layered IAM roles with permission boundaries, explicit denies, and cross‑cloud mirroring enforce least privilege while keeping auditability.
Set up IAM Identity Center with Okta or Azure AD via SAML, map groups to permission sets, and assign them using AWS CLI; watch for propagation delay.
GCP Workload Identity Federation and AWS IRSA replace static keys with short‑lived tokens via OIDC providers and K8s service‑account bindings, enforcing least‑privilege access.
Use IAM Access Analyzer’s UNUSED_IAM_CREDENTIAL findings with CLI/SDK to locate and delete stale keys, passwords, and certificates, automating via Lambda.
Enforce least‑privilege policies, condition‑based denies, and continuous IAM audits to block privilege escalation.
SCPs are org‑wide guardrails that cap IAM permissions, evaluated before IAM policies and can only tighten access.