IDENTITY & ACCESS OVERVIEW

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.

Instead of reviewing IAM resources independently, Securitain correlates them to reveal excessive permissions, external exposure, privilege-escalation paths, credential risk, and governance gaps.

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Understand your identity environment

Complete IAM visibility

Securitain discovers and analyzes:

IAM usersIAM groupsIAM rolesManaged policiesInline policiesAccess keysRoot-account controlsMFA and password policiesIAM Identity Center permission setsCross-account trustFederationResource policiesOrganizations and SCPs

Each object is enriched with activity, privilege, risk, and finding information.

Find risky users and roles

Identity inventory

Securitain evaluates identities using multiple security signals.

For users, it reviews:

  • MFA status
  • Console access
  • Access keys
  • Last activity
  • Administrator permissions
  • Related findings
  • Identity risk score

For roles, it reviews:

  • Trust relationships
  • External principals
  • Attached policies
  • Last-used information
  • Administrator access
  • iam:PassRole
  • Escalation paths
  • Risk score

This allows teams to prioritize identities that create the greatest exposure.

Reduce long-lived credential risk

Credential security

Securitain identifies:

  • Old access keys
  • Unused access keys
  • Never-used credentials
  • Administrator-owned access keys
  • Root-account security weaknesses
  • Missing MFA
  • Weak password controls
  • Dormant identities

Security teams can prioritize credential rotation, removal, and authentication improvements based on actual risk.

Understand what permissions actually allow

Policy intelligence

Securitain analyzes policy content rather than relying on policy names.

It detects:

  • Wildcard actions
  • Wildcard resources
  • Sensitive permissions
  • IAM modification permissions
  • Credential-management actions
  • Excessive policy attachments
  • Administrative access
  • Unused permissions
  • Missing permission boundaries

The platform also helps calculate effective permissions after multiple policies and access mechanisms are combined.

Reveal indirect paths to elevated access

Privilege-escalation analysis

A user or role may not have AdministratorAccess directly but may still obtain elevated privileges through combinations such as:

  • iam:PassRole
  • sts:AssumeRole
  • Policy creation or attachment
  • Role trust modification
  • Lambda execution
  • CloudFormation execution
  • Credential creation
  • Group membership changes
  • Cross-account role access

Securitain correlates these permissions and relationships to identify complete escalation paths.

Understand who can enter your AWS environment

External exposure and trust

Securitain evaluates:

  • Cross-account roles
  • External AWS principals
  • Public or broad trust
  • Role trust policies
  • Resource-based policies
  • SAML federation
  • OIDC federation
  • GitHub Actions trust
  • External identity providers
  • IAM Identity Center access
Visualize how access is connected

Relationship graph

The IAM Relationship Graph connects:

UsersGroupsRolesPoliciesAccountsServicesResources
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Move from detection to investigation

Explainable findings

Every Securitain finding can include:

  • Severity
  • Affected identity
  • AWS account
  • Entity ARN
  • Technical evidence
  • Related policy statements
  • First-seen and last-seen dates
  • Risk explanation
  • Recommended remediation
  • Finding lifecycle
Maintain control over production changes

Guided remediation

Securitain provides remediation guidance without automatically changing customer AWS resources.

Guidance may include:

  • AWS CLI instructions
  • IAM policy recommendations
  • Terraform examples
  • Least-privilege changes
  • Trust-policy restrictions
  • Credential-removal actions
  • Permission-boundary recommendations

Customers remain in control of every production change.

After remediation, a new scan can verify whether the issue has been removed.

Manage risk that cannot be fixed immediately

Governance and exceptions

When immediate remediation is not possible, Securitain supports controlled exception management.

An exception can require:

  • Business justification
  • Technical justification
  • Compensating controls
  • Expiration date
  • Owner or administrator approval
  • Audit history
Connect IAM findings to security frameworks

Compliance mapping

Securitain maps identity and access findings to frameworks such as:

CIS AWS Foundations BenchmarkSOC 2HIPAAPCI DSSNISTISO 27001

Technical evidence can be reused across compliance reports, audit reviews, and remediation programs.

Turn IAM data into actionable security information

Reports and security outcomes

Securitain provides:

  • Executive summaries
  • Identity-risk metrics
  • MFA coverage
  • Administrator exposure
  • Credential-risk reports
  • Escalation-path analysis
  • Compliance status
  • Remediation progress
  • Downloadable evidence

From IAM Inventory to Identity Risk Intelligence

Securitain does more than list AWS users, roles, and policies.

It connects identity relationships, calculates effective access, exposes hidden privilege paths, explains the evidence, and helps security teams reduce risk safely.

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