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Organizations frequently encounter security-related alerts that indicate resources not aligned with their security protocols. These alerts can originate from threat detection services such as Amazon GuardDuty, or from cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools like AWS Security Hub, among other sources. A crucial inquiry for organizations is: How quickly and effectively are they addressing these findings?
As a team leader in security, your mission is to oversee the security landscape of your organization and ensure adherence to best practices in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), including the principle of least privilege. While your developers are building on AWS, maintaining visibility across the organization is vital to confirm that teams are following security guidelines.
Utilizing AWS IAM Access Analyzer can be instrumental in refining unused access, as it provides recommendations tailored to enhance security. Additionally, employing Amazon Detective for IAM investigations can simplify the process of identifying IAM users and roles that may be implicated in security incidents. This is particularly beneficial given the complexities involved in gathering and analyzing data from multiple sources to ascertain the full context of any security event.
In this ongoing series, we explore effective strategies for achieving least privilege at scale within AWS IAM. We have previously discussed several techniques and mental models that can assist in this endeavor, and we will continue to expand on these strategies.
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