Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (ciem)

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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:

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

Auditing:

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

Governance:

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

Reporting:

Generate IAM Compliance reports
Generate IAM Executive Summary reports
Generate Activity Audit Report for Human and Machine users
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.