Definition
Cloud permissions result from attached and inherited policies, assumable roles and conditions. CIEM computes effective permissions, compares them to real usage and spots privilege escalations, never-used keys, administrators without a second factor.
In Ctadel
The Identities and permissions scanner computes effective permissions in the graph according to each cloud’s model, matches identities present on several clouds, and proposes permission reductions when the cloud exposes usage history. Assumable roles become links of attack paths.