Understand AWS IAM risk before it becomes an incident
Securitain analyzes IAM identities, credentials, policies, permissions, and trust relationships across your connected AWS accounts. It turns that analysis into prioritized findings so your team can see where access is too broad, which credentials need attention, and which IAM risks to address first.
- Read-only AWS access
- Agentless scanning
- Evidence-backed findings
⚠ Privilege Escalation Path Detected
Prioritized findings
evidence-backedConsole user without MFA
iam:user/finance-ops · mfa_devices: []
Role trusts external account
sts:AssumeRole · Principal: 9812…4471 · no ExternalId
Wildcard action in attached policy
deploy-pipeline · Action: "s3:*" · Resource: "*"
Risk Score
Coverage depends on the read-only role. Partial scans are clearly marked. Illustrative interface.
Identity risk, from inventory to escalation
One agentless scan builds a connected view of IAM risk across the AWS accounts you connect.
Risk-aware identity inventory
IAM users, groups, roles, and access keys discovered during the scan — scored so you can see where risk concentrates rather than reading a flat list.
Permissions, not just policy names
What an identity can do once managed, inline, boundary, and group policies are considered together — including wildcard actions, wildcard resources, and missing conditions.
Sensitive-permission detection
Highlights permissions that carry outsized risk when granted too broadly, so an over-privileged identity is visible before it becomes an incident.
Risky trust relationships
Who can assume your roles, which trusts reach external accounts, and whether confused-deputy protection (ExternalId) is present and scoped.
Credential prioritization
Console access without MFA, aging and unused access keys, over-privileged keys, and root-account exposure — ranked by risk context.
Prioritized findings
IAM analysis becomes findings with severity and risk context, so teams can work the higher-risk issues first instead of triaging a flat alert list.
Privilege-escalation risk
Analyzes supported IAM relationships and permission combinations to identify where access could be used to reach a more privileged role or resource.
Finding-to-control mapping
Maps IAM findings to supported compliance control areas and collects evidence for assessment workflows. Mapping support, not certification.
Find permissions that can lead to higher privilege
Some IAM permissions are low-risk on their own but become dangerous when they can be combined to reach a more privileged role or resource. Securitain analyzes supported IAM relationships and permission combinations to identify privilege-escalation risk and show the path involved.
Where access starts
The identity, credential, or role that holds the initial permission.
What connects it
The permission or trust relationship that links it to something more privileged.
Where it can lead
The role or resource reachable through that combination.
Securitain analyzes configuration. It does not exploit permissions or run attack simulations against your environment.
A permission is only part of the story
Securitain evaluates identities in context. A permission that appears harmless independently may become critical when combined with role assumption, iam:PassRole, workload execution, cross-account trust, resource policies, or access to sensitive resources.
Securitain helps surface these relationships so teams can prioritize real attack paths instead of treating every IAM finding equally.
Role assumption chains
An identity may appear low-risk until you follow the trust relationships it can traverse to reach a privileged role.
iam:PassRole combinations
PassRole paired with Lambda, EC2, ECS, or CloudFormation execution turns a modest permission into a privilege-escalation vector.
Cross-account trust exposure
A role trusted by an external account or without a scoped ExternalId may be reachable by principals you did not intend.
Resource policy overlap
S3, KMS, SQS, and SNS resource policies can grant access independently of identity policies — Securitain reads both layers together.
Sensitive-resource access
Identities with broad S3, KMS decrypt, or Secrets Manager permissions raise the impact of any credential exposure in that role.
Effective permission view
Managed, inline, group, boundary, and SCP policies are considered together — showing what an identity can actually do, not just what is attached.
Know why a finding was raised
A security finding is useful only when an engineer can verify it. Findings show the configuration evidence used to raise them, so reviewers can inspect the reasoning rather than take a score on trust.
- MFA & credential hygiene
- Wildcard actions & resources
- Permission boundaries
- Trust & ExternalId gaps
- Privilege-escalation risk
- Finding-to-control mapping
What a scan checks for
Coverage is capability-aware. If the read-only role can't see part of your account, Securitain runs a partial scan and reports what it could and couldn't analyze rather than presenting incomplete results as complete.
Securitain analyzes configured permissions and trust; it does not perform full IAM authorization simulation, deploy policies, or monitor runtime activity.
Keep IAM findings organized from discovery to resolution
Finding lifecycle
Review findings, update their status as work progresses, and document accepted risk or false positives with a reason so the decision stays on record.
Reports & export
Export findings and supporting evidence for security reviews and compliance workflows.
Read-only analysis, not automatic remediation
Securitain analyzes AWS configuration through a read-only cross-account role. Remediation stays under your control.
Securitain is an AWS cloud security platform that helps teams identify and prioritize IAM, data-security, and compliance risks using read-only analysis. Its IAM Security capability shows risky identities, credentials, permissions, trust relationships, and escalation risks, with evidence and remediation guidance for each finding.
See your AWS IAM risk clearly
Connect an AWS account through Securitain's read-only onboarding flow and review prioritized IAM findings from your environment.