Azure IAM

Purpose

The Azure IAM analyzer provides insights into the identity and access management (IAM) roles within your Azure environment. IT Ops and Sec Ops engineers can leverage this analyzer to manage and optimize roles, enforce access controls, and detect potential security risks. From a security perspective, it identifies roles with elevated permissions and ensures compliance with organizational access policies. Operationally, it aids in streamlining role assignments and monitoring IAM configurations for efficiency and governance.

List of Sightlines and Widgets

IAM Roles

Significance: The IAM Roles sightline focuses on the roles configured in Azure, highlighting their usage, permissions, and distribution. For Sec Ops engineers, it identifies roles with administrative privileges or unusual access patterns. IT Ops engineers can use this sightline to monitor role distribution and improve IAM hygiene.

Widgets

• IAM Roles

• Roles with Admin Access

• Role Type Distribution

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List of Alerts

• Excessive Privileges Alert: Identifies IAM roles with elevated or administrative access, ensuring enforcement of least privilege principles.

  • For IT Engineers: Helps manage and optimize role assignments, reducing over-permissioning.

  • For Security Engineers: Detects potential security risks posed by over-privileged roles, mitigating the impact of unauthorized access.

• Unused Role Alert: Flags roles that have not been used for a specified period, enabling their review and deactivation.

  • For IT Engineers: Aids in cleaning up unused or orphaned roles, improving IAM hygiene.

  • For Security Engineers: Reduces attack surface by removing unnecessary roles that could be exploited.

• Role Misconfiguration Alert: Highlights roles with unusual or incorrect configurations, such as missing MFA enforcement or excessive scope.

  • For IT Engineers: Ensures roles are configured for operational efficiency.

  • For Security Engineers: Detects misconfigurations that could lead to unauthorized access.

• Role Type Distribution Alert: Monitors the distribution of roles by type, flagging unexpected deviations that may indicate security or operational issues.

  • For IT Engineers: Ensures proper allocation of roles for different tasks.

  • For Security Engineers: Identifies unusual spikes in role creation or type distribution that may indicate malicious activity.

• Roles with Admin Access Alert: Detects roles with direct or indirect administrative access to critical resources.

  • For IT Engineers: Helps monitor and optimize role assignments for sensitive operations.

  • For Security Engineers: Identifies potential abuse of admin privileges, enabling timely action to prevent breaches.