Proactively govern cloud identity risk
Gain visibility of cloud principal identities and their permissions, pinpoint which are riskiest, and easily right-size entitlements to reduce risk.
Gain full visibility
Know who or what can perform certain actions, and continuously discover new identities and their permissions.
Identify excess
Understand which identities have unnecessary permissions, and which entities are dormant and unused.
Prioritize remediation
Automatically pinpoint high-risk users and machines, understand why, and prioritize them accordingly.
Contextualize risk
Easily understand how identity risks impact active threats and potential attack paths across security domains.
Minimize cloud identity risk while maintaining trust
Gain Complete Visibility
Continuously discover identities and their permissions
- Dynamically discover and enumerate all users, groups, roles, policies, entitlements and machines
- Automatically determine effective permissions by analyzing identity and resource policies, SCPs and more
- Quickly identify linked identities capable of assuming an entity’s privileges to assess lateral movement
Prioritize Riskiest Identities
Quickly identify which identities pose the greatest risk
- Continuously monitor usage to uncover over-privileged and dormant identities, and oversubscribed resources
- Instantly see high-risk identities scored by 30+ factors, including role chaining and toxic combinations
- Visualize an identity’s relationship to attack paths, and quickly see the impact of a compromised entity
Reduce Identity Risk
Effortlessly right-size to least privilege access
- Gain automated guidance for reducing risk and detailed explanations for each recommended policy change
- Easily link to existing workflow tools, like Jira, to ensure continuous tracking of policy remediation
- Create and document policy exceptions to further prioritize remediation efforts towards actionable risks
“I feel comfortable knowing we have very few blind spots in our cloud environment. Lacework stretches our visibility so far that I feel I can see everything.”
Kevin Tham
CISO
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“We want to make sure that everything in our cloud environments is visible, and that we can audit it. Lacework has helped with both visibility and auditing, which has really allowed us to grow and mature, and enabled our teams to generate value.”
Steve Lukose
Director of Security Engineering
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“With the reports generated by the Lacework dashboard, we can easily see what resources are compliant, what resources are not compliant, and what we need to do to achieve compliance.”
Jay Rawal
Devops Engineer
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Cloud infrastructure entitlement management, or CIEM (pronounced “kim”), is a cloud security solution that focuses on helping organizations enforce the principle of least privilege when building, deploying, using, and managing cloud infrastructure services. A CIEM security platform is designed to help with cloud identity governance and to right-size permissions that may be excessive and dormant, ensuring that each cloud entity has the minimum level of access necessary to perform its job.
Cloud infrastructure entitlement management provides centralized visibility and control by offering a centralized platform for monitoring, managing, and auditing who has access to what within Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and whether these permissions are appropriate. CIEM helps organizations identify and mitigate excessive permissions and “cloud identity debt” (i.e., the buildup of unused identities and excessive privileges accumulated over time).
For an in-depth look at CIEM and its importance, read this blog.
Cloud infrastructure entitlement management, focuses on cloud identity governance, and managing user and service privileges related to the use of cloud services. It helps identify over-privileged access, excessive permissions, and unused entitlements, reducing the risk of security breaches. CIEM is a part of privileged access management, ensuring only the right individuals have access to critical resources.
On the other hand, CSPM, cloud security posture management, focuses on compliance and risk management. It involves identifying and remediating risks associated with IAM-related misconfigurations such as weak/default passwords, hardcoded secrets, wildcard permissions, no MFA, and more.
Although both CIEM and CSPM are crucial for cloud security, their focus areas differ. CIEM manages what actions users and services can take, while CSPM assesses the configuration of cloud services with frameworks and best practices. Both contribute to a comprehensive cloud security strategy.
Both CIEM and the CNAPP contribute significantly to cloud security, but they play different roles. CIEM is centered around privileged access management, ensuring that the correct individuals or services have appropriate access in a cloud environment. It identifies over-privileged access and unused entitlements, thus reducing security risks.
CNAPP, on the other hand, is designed to holistically secure cloud-native applications. It is a superset of integrated cloud security capabilities that provide artifact scanning, risk assessments, and threat detection across each stage of the cloud-native application lifecycle.
The relationship between CIEM and CNAPP is symbiotic. CIEM is very much a part of CNAPP. CIEM is a key component of CNAPP, as it manages entitlements and secures privileged access. Together, they form a robust cloud security strategy.
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