Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)

 

Cloud Adoption is at an all-time high and enterprises around the world are adopting a ‘cloud first’ strategy. Along with that, there is a dramatic increase in the number of organizations getting breached in the cloud space – and majority of those breaches had something to do with Identities and its related entitlements.

What is CIEM?

CIEM Solutions focuses on IAM Governance, mainly by reducing the risk of over-privileged identities in a dynamic multi-cloud infrastructure. CIEM mitigates the risks associated with privilege escalation, compromised credentials and other suspicious access activities by providing deep visibility into cloud entitlements and access risks.

Core CIEM Capabilities:

Visibility and Inventory:

1. Inventory of all Human and Machine Identities across Multi Cloud
2. View Overall IAM Compliance Score by Cloud Account or Account Groups
3. Detect identities and resources with excessive permissions and entitlements
4. View and monitor Access Key usage
5. Deep visibility into entitlements and access patterns.

Auditing:

1. Timeline view of changes to sensitive resources
2. Track recent access changes across cloud infrastructure
3. Track user activities generate audit reports
4. View traffic patterns in the network
5. Audit granular permissions of IAM users, roles and service accounts.

Governance:

1. Enforce predefined and custom IAM policies
2. One Click Remediation for unused entitlements
3. Right size roles across cloud service providers
4. Diagnose and fix IAM failures.

Reporting:

1. Generate IAM Compliance reports
2. Generate IAM Executive Summary reports
3. Generate Activity Audit Report for Human and Machine users
4. Generate User Entitlements reports.

The SecurEnds Approach to CIEM

SecurEnds is launching its SecurEnds Access Control to address all the problem statements mentioned above and help enterprises gain complete control over identities and infrastructure entitlements, and right size identity privileges. SecurEnds Access Control would be closely integrated with the SecurEnds Cloud Control platform and will help enterprises automate cloud infrastructure entitlement and manage identities at scale.

Get in touch with us to learn more about SecurEnds CIEM capabilities.

What is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management?

 CIEM addresses cloud native security challenges of managing IAM in cloud environments. These challenges are often too complex and dynamic to be managed effectively by the native tools provided by cloud service providers (CSPs). The emerging CIEM category defines technologies that provide identity lifecycle and access governance controls, which ultimately reduce excessive cloud infrastructure entitlements and streamline least-privilege access controls across dynamic, distributed cloud environments. 

 

Key Challenges Managing Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements: 

1. Privileged Access Management. 

2. Identity Governance and Administration. 

 

For Privileged Access Management, a CIEM should: 

1. Monitor and prevent entitlement misuse. 

2. Assess the necessary duration of entitlements. 

3. Address the prolific nature of cloud entitlements. 

 

For Identity Governance & Administration, a solution should cover: 

1. Visibility, governance and compliance oversight. 

2. Monitoring excessive and risky entitlements. 

3. Rightsizing automation. 

 

SecurEnds pre-built integration with AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud platforms allows self-service access request to create users, groups and permissions with approval workflow and perform user access review for identity governance. SecurEnds unifies HR and IT, using employee data and updating into cloud platforms to inform the user provisioning and access control. 

 

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CIEM product provides the following features. 

• Multi-Cloud access control 

• Access provisioning 

• Entitlement management 

• Segregation of duties 

• Enforce least privileged access 

• Identity and entitlement risk 

• Identity and entitlement analytics 

• AI/ML based entitlement outliers 

• Access certification 

• Entitlement audits 

• Orphan accounts 

• Dormant accounts 

 

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