Protecting Customer data with AWS Identity and Access Management

In today’s cloud-driven business landscape, securing access to data and workloads is paramount. OneData Software delivers end-to-end cloud security services built around AWS best practices, with a particular focus on identity and access management (IAM) to protect customer data from unauthorized access or misuse. From foundational architecture to ongoing governance, OneData ensures that cloud identities, roles, permissions and policies are configured and managed in a way that enforces security, compliance and scalability.

IAM & Access Framework

• OneData begins by assessing the current identity landscape of the client: user accounts, service accounts, roles, APIs, cross-account access, privileged access.

• Using AWS IAM and associated services (like IAM roles, groups, policies, IAM Identity Center, AWS Organizations), OneData sets up least-privilege access models: users and services are given only the permissions they need. For example, the use of properly scoped roles for applications instead of broad access.

• For service-to-service access, OneData sets up role assumption patterns, temporary credentials, and integration with Kubernetes or container workloads via IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) to isolate and limit access.

• Access governance: OneData implements continuous monitoring, auditing, and enforcement of IAM policies and permissions, ensuring no overly-broad permissions remain active, and keeping changes traceable via AWS CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and other monitoring tools.

• Identity lifecycle and governance: OneData helps implement processes for provisioning/de-provisioning identities, managing roles and permissions, separating privileges (especially for administrators), and applying role-based or attribute-based access control models.

• Compliance & secure posture: For regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) OneData uses IAM controls to enforce encryption, secure identity boundaries, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and logging to meet frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC-2, ISO-27001.

• Architecture hardening: OneData uses the AWS Well Architected Framework security pillar to review and bolster identity and access management practices within AWS accounts and multi-account environments.

Benefits

• Reduced risk of unauthorized data access or identity compromise.

• Better visibility, traceability and audit-capability over who accessed what and when.

• Consistent and scalable identity controls across single and multi-account AWS environments.

• Compliance readiness with industry regulations by embedding IAM best-practices.

• Operational efficiency due to automated identity/permission workflows and ongoing governance.

• Ability to enforce a strong security posture with minimal overhead and fewer manual processes.