Tag: AWS IAM

If you have multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and you have AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles among those multiple accounts that are supposed to be similar, those roles can deviate over time from your intended baseline due to manual actions performed directly out-of-band called drift. As part of regular compliance checks, you […]

Organizations are increasingly providing access to corporate resources from employee laptops and are required to apply the correct permissions to these computing devices to make sure that secrets and sensitive data are adequately protected. The combination of Amazon Web Services (AWS) long-term credentials and a YubiKey security token for multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an option […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles are a significant component in the way customers operate in Amazon Web Service (AWS). In this post, I’ll dive into the details on how Cloud security architects and account administrators can protect IAM roles from misuse by using trust policies. By the end of this post, you’ll know […]

In this post, I explain how you can use attribute-based access controls (ABAC) in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help provision simple, maintainable access controls to different projects, teams, and workloads as your organization grows. ABAC gives you access to granular permissions and employee-attribute based authorization. By using ABAC, you need fewer AWS Identity and […]

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to create and manage your resource-based policies using the Secrets Manager console. With this launch, we are also improving your security posture by both identifying and preventing creation of resource policies that grant overly broad access to your secrets across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. To achieve this, […]

August 3, 2020: This post has been updated to include some additional information about managing users and permissions. Do you want to control access to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts with G Suite? In this post, we show you how to set up G Suite as an external identity provider in AWS Single Sign-On […]

Customers tell us that when their teams and projects are just getting started, administrators may grant broad access to inspire innovation and agility. Over time administrators need to restrict access to only the permissions required and achieve least privilege. Some customers have told us they need information to help them determine the permissions an application […]

October 20, 2020: This post has been updated to reflect the change in date for the default password policy from October 2 to October 21 to October 28. July 27, 2020: This post has been updated to reflect the change in date for the default password policy from August 3 to October 2. To improve […]

Customers use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets to store critical data and manage access to data at scale. With Amazon S3 Access Points, customers can easily manage shared data sets by creating separate access points for individual applications. Access points are unique hostnames attached to a bucket and customers can set distinct permissions using […]

In my earlier post Simplify granting access to your AWS resources by using tags on AWS IAM users and roles, I explained how to implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) in AWS to simplify permissions management at scale. In that scenario, I talked about relying on attributes on your IAM users and roles for access control […]