Security News > 2021 > April > Improper cloud IAM leaving organizations at risk

There is an industry-wide cloud permissions gap crisis, leaving countless organizations at risk due to improper identity and access management, a CloudKnox Security report reveals.

"The focus on digital transformation over the last few years-and accelerated throughout 2020-has led to a significant delta between permissions granted and permissions used in the cloud. This cloud permissions gap is a massive contributing factor to the rise of both accidental and malicious threats for organizations of all sizes," said Raj Mallempati, COO of CloudKnox.

"Permissions misuse or abuse can allow both human and machine identities to create and destroy portions of the cloud infrastructure; and without right-sizing these permissions, enforcing least privilege and zero trust access, these identities have the potential to become CISOs' worst nightmares."

More than 40% of AWS roles were reported as inactive or over permissioned, putting these organizations at risk of a costly breach should a bad actor breach one of these roles.

Key cloud provider risks Amazon Web Services More than 95% of identities are using less than 2% of permissions granted.

Google Cloud Platform More than 90% of identities are using less than 5% of permissions granted.

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