IAM Policies That Allow Assume Role Permission Across All Services

Overview

The "IAM Policies That Allow Assume Role Permission Across All Services" widget identifies IAM policies that allow the "AssumeRole" action across all AWS services. These policies are often overly permissive and should be reviewed to ensure that role assumption is restricted to necessary services only.

Why It Matters

For IT Engineers:

1. Permissions Control:

   • Provides visibility into policies that grant overly broad assume role permissions, allowing IT engineers to tighten permissions and limit role assumption to specific services.

2. Operational Efficiency:

   • Simplifies the management of permissions by flagging policies that provide unrestricted role assumption, enabling quicker policy adjustments.

For Security Engineers:

1. Risk Reduction:

   • Helps identify and mitigate the security risks associated with overly permissive assume role policies, ensuring that roles can only be assumed where necessary.

2. Compliance:

   • Supports compliance with least privilege principles by reducing the potential for privilege escalation via unrestricted role assumption.