More Excessive Permission Accounts Means More Potential Attack Surfaces

In the latest report, Palo Alto Network reiterate findings that Gartner confirmed last year. It's not a pleasure read.?Specially for those responsible for safeguarding assets on the clouds.

The Palo Alto report titled 'IAM Your Defense Against Cloud Threats' found that 99% of cloud "users, roles, services, and resources were granted excessive permissions which were ultimately left unused."

Last year Gartner had put the number at 95 %.

The authors of the report Palo Alto report?weighted accounts that go unused for more than 60 or more days as having excessive permissions.??

Identity breach remains the choicest way for bad actors to infiltrate your cloud space and no matter how efficient and fool-proof your cloud security is, as long as there are identities that can be exploited, you are not safe, period.?

Do you have proper security SOPs to track and strike down over-permissioned accounts?

?Please tell us about the measures you take to monitor such risky accounts.