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Identity, Access & Zero Trust
Identity, Access & Zero Trust

Control Who Can Access AWS—and How Far a Compromise Can Move

Not knowing exactly who can access what is a quiet kind of risk—permissions accumulate as accounts, teams, vendors, and automation grow, and "temporary" exceptions quietly become permanent. We help you take that control back. We help you redesign access around verified identity, least privilege, short-lived credentials, and clear trust boundaries, combining architecture expertise with read-only analysis from Securitain.

Identity, Access & Zero Trust
Least privilege & short-lived access
Find hidden escalation paths
Safer cross-account & vendor trust
Zero-trust access architecture
Effective access

The Risk Is Rarely One Policy

A user without admin access may still pass a privileged role to Lambda, EC2, ECS, CloudFormation or CodeBuild. A vendor role may trust more accounts than intended. Cloudain evaluates effective access across identities, policies, trust, service roles, and account boundaries—to understand the complete path, not just count wildcards.

Pass a privileged role to an AWS service
Update Lambda under a powerful role
Launch EC2/ECS with elevated roles
Modify CloudFormation / CodeBuild roles
Change IAM, trust or instance profiles
Weak cross-account trust to escalate
Direct admin deniediam:PassRoleUser (no admin)AWS servicePrivileged roleAdmin / data
What Cloudain does

What Cloudain Does

From a clear identity model and controlled sessions to escalation-path analysis, guardrails, and zero trust.

Build a Clear Identity & Trust Model

Map users, admins, service roles, applications, automation, and third parties across accounts.

Who receives access
How it is granted
Where it is inherited
Which trust creates exposure

Controlled Sessions, Not Persistent Access

Move off scattered IAM users and long-lived keys to federation, MFA, and temporary STS sessions.

IAM Identity Center
Permission sets & MFA
Temporary STS sessions
Auditable break-glass

Reduce Permission Without Breaking Ops

Apply least privilege from real workload needs—by action, resource, condition, environment, and account.

Remove unused permissions
Reduce wildcards
Separate op/deploy/admin roles
Validate before rollout

Find Hidden Privilege-Escalation Paths

Uncover permission combinations that yield admin or sensitive access with no admin policy attached.

iam:PassRole combinations
Lambda/EC2/ECS role abuse
IAM & trust-policy changes
Cross-account assume paths

Secure Cross-Account & Third-Party Access

Assess and redesign access between workload, shared, security accounts, vendors, and MSPs.

External ID conditions
Source account / ARN limits
Session-duration limits
Time-bound vendor access

Apply Guardrails at Scale

Preventive controls with Organizations, SCPs, permission boundaries, and delegated administration.

Protect logging & security
Block unrestricted admin roles
Restrict Regions & boundaries
Prevent public exposure

Secure Workload Identities

Least-privilege access for applications and automation, not broad inherited permissions.

EC2 / Lambda / ECS roles
EKS Pod Identity & IRSA
CodeBuild & CodePipeline
GitHub Actions via OIDC

Introduce Zero Trust Where It Adds Value

Zero trust applied as an access architecture for workforce, application, and admin access.

Explicit verification & MFA
Context-aware access
Private application access
Short-lived privilege & logging
Never trust, always verify

Introduce Zero Trust Where It Adds Value

Zero trust is implemented as an access architecture, not sold as a single product. Cloudain applies explicit verification, MFA and temporary sessions, context-aware and application-level authorization, private access, and short-lived privilege with continuous review.

Explicit identity verification
MFA & temporary sessions
Context-aware access
Application-level authorization
Private application access
Short-lived privilege & session logging
RequestVERIFY EVERY REQUESTIdentityMFAContextPolicyShort-lived session
Engagement flow

How the Engagement Works

A connected path from mapping identities and trust to least privilege, guardrails, and zero-trust access.

01

Map Identities & Trust

Build a clear model of human, workload, and third-party identities and trust relationships.

02

Controlled Sessions

Replace long-lived keys with federation, MFA, permission sets, and temporary STS sessions.

03

Least Privilege

Reduce permission by action, resource, condition, and account—without breaking operations.

04

Escalation Paths

Find and explain privilege-escalation and toxic-combination attack paths.

05

Guardrails at Scale

Apply SCPs, permission boundaries, and delegated administration across accounts.

06

Zero Trust

Introduce explicit verification, context-aware access, and short-lived privilege where it adds value.

Read-only analysis

How Securitain Supports the Engagement

Securitain provides a read-only view of AWS identity and access risk so consultants can investigate faster and more consistently. Cloudain then validates business context, exploitability, and remediation impact—so the engagement never becomes a generic list of findings.

Wildcard & administrative permissions
Risky trust policies
Cross-account exposure
Missing MFA & credential hygiene
iam:PassRole risk
Privilege-escalation combinations
Resource-policy exposure
Unused or high-risk identities
Workload roles with excessive access
Missing permission boundaries & guardrails
Deliverables & impact

What You Receive & Expected Outcomes

Clear deliverables for engineering and leadership, and measurable improvements to AWS identity and access.

What You Receive

Identity & trust architecture
Human, workload & third-party inventory
Privileged-access register
Cross-account trust map
Effective-permission analysis
Privilege-escalation & toxic-combination findings
Identity Center & federation design
Permission-set & role model
Permission-boundary & SCP recommendations
Workload identity improvements
Prioritized remediation roadmap
Implementation support & retesting

Expected Outcomes

Fewer long-lived AWS credentials
Reduced standing administrative access
Clearer ownership of privileged roles
Safer cross-account & vendor access
Lower privilege-escalation risk
Better separation of human & workload identities
Consistent access controls across accounts
Easier audit & access-review evidence
A practical path toward zero-trust access

Access Should Be Intentional, Temporary and Explainable

Cloudain helps you understand effective access across AWS, remove hidden privilege, and establish an identity model that scales with your organization.

Least Privilege

Only the access needed

Short-Lived Access

Temporary, auditable sessions

Lower Escalation Risk

Hidden paths removed