SECURITY CONCEPTS

Security Concepts

A four-part series on AWS IAM security — from identity inventory to relationship graphs, escalation paths, and guided remediation.

Securitain overview diagram showing AWS IAM users, groups, roles, policies, access keys, permission sets, trust relationships, and accounts correlated into a single identity security model.

IDENTITY & ACCESS OVERVIEW01

Discover, Understand, and Govern IAM Risk Across AWS

Securitain provides a connected view of AWS identity security across users, roles, policies, credentials, permission sets, trust relationships, and accounts.

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Diagram showing how an IAM user, policy, role, AWS Lambda, access keys, federation, and cross-account trust can combine into privilege escalation and sensitive-resource access.

IDENTITY & ACCESS CHALLENGE02

Why IAM Security Is Difficult

IAM risk is rarely visible in a single user, role, or policy. It emerges when permissions, credentials, services, and trust relationships are combined.

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Securitain architecture diagram showing IAM signals flowing through normalization, correlation, analysis, and risk scoring into relationship graphs, escalation paths, explainable findings, and remediation.

IDENTITY RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE03

How Securitain Exposes Hidden IAM Risk

Securitain transforms disconnected AWS IAM data into a connected, risk-scored security model.

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IAM Relationship Graph diagram connecting users, groups, roles, policies, accounts, services, and protected resources through membership, policy attachment, role assumption, trust, and escalation relationships.

RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE04

See How Identities, Permissions, Roles, and Resources Are Connected

AWS IAM resources are usually reviewed separately. Users appear in one place, roles in another, policies in another, and trust relationships somewhere else.

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