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Manage the Cloud Permissions Gap to Achieve Zero Trust The Cloud Permissions Gap exposes organizations to highly exploitable risk combined with the inability to implement and manage Zero Trust policies. By Raj Mallempati, CloudKnox Security COO In 2020, when organizations were prioritizing digital transformation so they could pivot to remote work on an unprecedented scale, Gartner added a new category to its 2020 Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management Technologies called Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). 52
CIEM? Looks a lot like SIEM. CIEM may look like and even sound like SIEM (security information and event management), but the two security solutions are not the same. While there may be some overlapping capabilities for cloud-first and hybrid environments with cloud-native SIEM vendors, none of them have the ability to extend their platform to manage and enforce entitlements and permissions for the multi-cloud and hybrid cloud enterprises. This management and enforcement of entitlements and permissions is a core competency of a comprehensive CIEM platform, and it enables organizations to design and implement Zero Trust architectures in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments. As multi-cloud adoption continues to increase across the industry, the movement of workloads to such environments requires in-depth visibility and analysis of cloud infrastructure accounts, permissions, entitlements and activity, and granular controls. Why is CIEM vital for organizations? The Cloud Permissions Gap. A new attack surface has emerged in response to mass digital transformation: the Cloud Permissions Gap. CloudKnox threat research has uncovered that more than 90% of privileged identities within organizations’ cloud infrastructures (both human and machine) are using less than 5% of their permissions granted. This delta is known as the Cloud Permissions Gap, and it is a contributing factor to the rise of both accidental and malicious insider threats impacting enterprises of all sizes, as attackers are able to exploit an identity with misconfigured permissions and access across the organization’s critical cloud infrastructure. Specific risks and challenges associated with the Cloud Permissions Gap include: ● ● ● ● Inactive identities and super identities. Every company has at least few inactive identities— former employees, testing, POCs, etc.—just hanging out there. Even more dire, there are other identities known as “break-glass accounts” or super identities that are floating around with unlimited permissions and unrestricted access to all cloud resources offered across the organization. Over-permissioned active identities. Continuously tracking and monitoring the proliferation of new services, roles and permissions in the cloud is almost impossible to do manually. Cross-account access. Organizations leverage cross-account roles to allow identities to access different environments—development, test, production, etc.—and allow third-party entities to access their accounts. This is both convenient and a potential vulnerability for the organization. The inherent danger is when an identity access management (IAM) role in these instances is over-provisioned. Since these roles grant permissions to an entire account, the misconfigured permissions tied to the role can cause significant—and costly—ripple effects. Anomalous behavior among machine identities. Machine or non-human identities consist of scrips, bots, access keys and others, and they typically perform the same repetitive actions. If a 53
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