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Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)
What is CIEM
Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) is the next generation of solutions for managing permissions. CIEM provides visibility into all actions performed by all identities, enforces the principle of least privilege, and continuously monitors for permission risks across multiple clouds.
Why do we need a CEIM? Because most Cloud Security Posture Management solutions can’t monitor user privileges, this adds to the administrators’ burden. Gartner recently reported that among 95% of cloud accounts, fewer than 3% of active entitlements were actually used.
What does that mean? The majority of entitlements create excess privileges – exactly the opposite of what organizations should be striving for as they aim to implement Zero Trust cloud security strategies.
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution that provides comprehensive visibility into permissions assigned to all user and workload identities, actions, and resources across cloud infrastructures and identity providers. It detects, right-sizes, and monitors unused and excessive permissions and enables Zero Trust security through least privilege access in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Permissions Management allows you to:
- Get a multi-dimensional view of your risk by assessing identities, permissions, and resources.
- Automate least privilege policy enforcement consistently in your entire multicloud infrastructure.
- Prevent data breaches caused by misuse and malicious exploitation of permissions with anomaly and outlier detection.
How can you prevent your cloud permissions from expanding your attack surface?
Mazzy Technologies will support your organization utilizing Microsoft Entra Permissions Management to:
- Assess your permission risks and identify what identity has been doing what, where they’ve been doing it, and when they’ve been doing it
- Grant permissions on-demand and just-in-time to ensure the principle of least privilege
- Continuously monitor permissions usage across clouds to prevent security threats
Step 1: Discover Risk with a zero-cost Assessment
You can’t fix what you can’t see, which is why granular visibility is the first step in the discovery phase of the lifecycle. This free assessment starts by uncovering all unique human and workload identities that can touch an organization’s cloud infrastructure, what operations (or actions) they are authorized to execute, what actions they have historically performed, and which cloud resources they have accessed.
In multicloud environments, this level of visibility requires a CIEM solution that can abstract, collect, normalize, and present both real-time and historical identity activity in a single, unified, consumable format. Only with this depth of visibility and insight can organizations understand and mitigate the risk related to the threat that over-permissioned identities pose to the organization.
Establishing a Baseline: The right solution will determine this risk by calculating the delta between permissions granted and permissions used over a specific period. From an identity perspective, security teams need this data to build “activity profiles” for each unique human and workload identity in their cloud environment. These profiles can then be used as a baseline to measure risk and the organization’s ability to enforce and maintain a state of least privilege over time. Activity profiles can also be used to detect anomalous or suspicious behavior, such as an identity that suddenly performs a high-risk action for the first time on a critical or sensitive resource they have never accessed before.