A naukri.com initiative
AWS Blogs
2w
399
Image Credit: AWS Blogs
Verify internal access to critical AWS resources with new IAM Access Analyzer capabilities
- AWS IAM Access Analyzer introduces new capability to verify access to critical AWS resources, aiding security teams in ensuring access control.
- The feature provides visibility into internal access within AWS organizations, supplementing external access analysis.
- It helps regulated industries like financial services and healthcare verify access to sensitive data stores such as Amazon S3 buckets.
- The automated reasoning feature evaluates various policies and generates findings for internal access to resources like S3 buckets and Amazon RDS snapshots.
- Users can utilize Amazon EventBridge to notify teams of new findings and strengthen access controls.
- The tool simplifies access review and management, aiding compliance teams in demonstrating access control audit requirements.
- To utilize the capability, users can enable IAM Access Analyzer in the AWS Management Console and create an analyzer with specific settings.
- Zone of trust settings determine the scope of analysis, evaluating IAM roles and users either within the organization or specific account.
- After setting up the analyzer and selecting resources for analysis, IAM Access Analyzer generates daily findings on access granted within the organization.
- The tool categorizes access into public, external, and internal access, providing a resource-centric view for easy analysis and management.
- IAM Access Analyzer ensures policies comply with least-privilege requirements and provides detailed information on IAM actions and conditions.
Read Full Article
24 Likes
For uninterrupted reading, download the app