AWS IAM Security

Turn AWS IAM complexity into prioritized, explainable risk.

See who can access what across your AWS accounts, which identities create the most risk, how attackers could escalate — and exactly what to fix first, with the evidence behind every finding.

Read-only cross-account role Agentless Explainable risk scoring
What it analyzes

Identity risk, from inventory to escalation

One agentless scan, the full picture of identity risk across your AWS organization.

Risk-aware identity inventory

Every IAM user, group, role, access key, and Identity Center permission set across your accounts — each scored so you see where risk concentrates, not just a flat list.

Effective permissions, not policy names

What an identity can actually do once managed, inline, boundary, and group policies combine — including wildcard actions, wildcard resources, and missing conditions.

Sensitive-action detection

Flags permissions tied to data exfiltration, privilege escalation, and infrastructure takeover — the actions that turn an over-privileged identity into an incident.

Risky trust relationships

Who can assume your roles, which trusts reach external accounts, and whether confused-deputy protection (ExternalId) is present and correctly scoped.

Credential prioritization

Console access without MFA, aging and unused access keys, over-privileged keys, and root-account exposure — ranked by how much they actually matter.

Blast-radius ranking

Identities ranked by the impact they could cause if compromised, so remediation starts where it reduces the most risk.

Escalation paths

Multi-step paths to higher privilege through PassRole, SSM SendCommand, and EC2/ECS/CloudFormation, shown as a clear tabular chain.

Identity Center governance

IAM Identity Center permission sets and assignments, plus Organizations and SCP analysis — coverage depends on the read-only role having the relevant permissions.

Identity connection graph
risky trust highlighted
Privilege escalation

The paths that turn a foothold into admin

Securitain reconstructs multi-step escalation chains — what an identity starts with, the action it abuses, and where it lands.

Low-privilege identityExecute as a privileged role
iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction
Developer roleRun commands on privileged EC2 instances
ssm:SendCommand
CI/CD roleProvision resources with elevated permissions
cloudformation:CreateStack + PassRole
Service roleLaunch tasks under a higher-privilege task role
ecs:RunTask + PassRole
Explain every finding

No black-box scores

Open any finding and see exactly why it was raised. Every score is backed by the configuration Securitain observed, so engineers can verify it and auditors can trust it.

Resource ARN and the account it lives in
The exact evidence behind the finding (policy, condition, key age, trust statement)
Risk flags that triggered the finding
How much this finding contributes to the risk score
Which framework control areas it maps to
Recommended fix with an AWS CLI example
Evidence-backed Reproducible CLI remediation
finding-drawer
100%coverage
  • MFA & credential hygiene
  • Wildcard actions & resources
  • Sensitive data access
  • Trust & ExternalId gaps
  • Privilege-escalation paths
  • Blast-radius ranking
Detection coverage

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 tells you exactly what it could and couldn't analyze.

Console access without MFA
Aging, unused & over-privileged access keys
Wildcard actions, wildcard resources & missing conditions
Sensitive access to S3, KMS, Secrets, SSM, DynamoDB
Sensitive access to EC2, ECS & CloudFormation
Missing permission boundaries
External trust relationships & ExternalId gaps
Resource-policy exposure (S3/KMS/SQS/SNS)
Privilege-escalation paths
Blast-radius ranking
Identity Center permission-set risk
Finding-to-control mapping

Securitain analyzes configured permissions and trust; it does not perform full IAM authorization simulation, deploy policies, or monitor runtime activity.

Track & report

From finding to fixed, with a trail

Finding lifecycle

OpenIn ProgressRemediatedSuppressedFalse Positive

Reports & export

PDF
Markdown
CSV
JSON

Move findings through their lifecycle, suppress accepted risk with a reason, and export executive or technical reports in the format your team needs.

Risk burn-down
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Remediated
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See your IAM risk in 5 minutes

Connect a read-only role and get a prioritized, explainable view of exactly who can do what across your AWS accounts.