IAM security
Leverage policy-as-code to develop least-privileged IAM
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is essential to providing access and managing permissions across cloud services. By leveraging infrastructure as code (IaC), Bridgecrew helps security teams embed automated guardrails within development pipelines to enforce right-sized IAM policies.
IAM 101
What are the risks of overly-permissive IAM?
Maintaining the principle of least privilege is key to hardening your cloud security posture by making IAM policies more manageable and reducing the risk of unauthorized access and stolen credentials.
Unmanageable IAM
Maintaining least-privilege IAM requires a concerted effort and can be at odds with moving fast. When overly-permissive IAM policies build up over time, it can be difficult to untangle the resulting sprawl to get clear insight into who has access to what.
Unmitigated access
Managing access and permissions across hundreds, if not thousands, of cloud services is easier said than done. Without proper guardrails in place, it’s hard to retroactively identify overly permissive access that could amplify the impact of compromised credentials.
Our approach
Enforcing least-privilege IAM policies across code and cloud
As teams diversify their infrastructure and expand their usage of existing cloud services, the best way to keep IAM under control is through policy-as-code enforcement and automated governance. In addition to helping teams enforce security and compliance policies across services, Bridgecrew also helps assess, resolve, and govern risks in IAM.
Assess
By analyzing IAM data and usage patterns from both your code and cloud, Bridgecrew develops context-rich models of your permissions across users, roles, groups, and custom policies.
Resolve
To eliminate IAM sprawl, Bridgecrew provides a right-sized Terraform file for your policies that can be applied to correct overly permissive access or can be merged into your existing IAM policy code.
Govern
Bridgecrew also helps you proactively and continuously govern your cloud IAM and code-based modifications to your IAM policies so you can prevent IAM drift and maintain least privilege permissions.
Caleb Sima
VP Security
How it works
IAM-as-code
To help teams maintain IAM security best practices programmatically and consistently, our open source tool AirIAM and our platform are here to help.
Bridgecrew
Bridgecrew is equipped with dozens built-in IAM policies enforced from code to cloud to minimize over-privileged IAM roles and permissions.
Learn more →AirIAM
AirIAM is our open source tool that analyzes IAM activity and transforms sprawl into right-sized IaC that can be managed and versioned in code.
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