IAM Security Scanner
For Fast In-Account Risk Assessment
Over-privileged roles, dormant identities, and hidden access paths can remain unnoticed until audits expose critical control gaps. IAM In-Account Scanner evaluates seven risk dimensions and delivers prioritized findings within fifteen minutes. It requires no credential sharing and stores the completed assessment securely inside your designated S3 bucket.
See Identity Exposure Before It Becomes an Incident
IAM In-Account Scanner gives security, platform, and compliance teams immediate visibility into risky permissions and inactive identities. The Agentless AWS Risk Assessment detects privilege creep, stale credentials, policy gaps, and weak ownership across your account.
Teams receive a maturity score, executive summary, technical evidence, remediation priorities, and compliance mappings within one report. Because processing remains internal, sensitive identity data never leaves your environment during scanning, scoring, or report generation.
Where Does IAM Risk Accumulate?
Built for AWS environments where permissions expand faster than ownership reviews, credential cleanup, and policy enforcement processes.
Privilege Creep Expansion
Temporary access often becomes permanent, leaving users and services with more authority than their responsibilities require.
Ghost Identity Exposure
Former employees, expired contractors, and unused service accounts can remain active long after accountable ownership disappears.
Hidden Role Sprawl
Overlapping policies and inherited permissions make dangerous escalation paths difficult to identify during routine manual reviews.
Static Credential Risk
Long-lived keys and shared secrets weaken traceability while increasing damage from compromised user or service accounts.
Audit Evidence Delays
Screenshots, spreadsheets, and manual evidence collection delay certification work while creating inconsistent and incomplete audit records.
Missing Risk Context
IAM inventories show existing permissions without explaining severity, business impact, or the correct remediation sequence.
How the In-Account IAM Assessment Works
A lightweight assessment analyzes live identity data to uncover access risks and prioritize remediation.
- Connect Identity Data
- Score IAM Exposure
- Prioritize Risk Findings
The result is a secure, in-account view of identity risk with clear next steps for remediation.
Deploy Scanner Stack
Deploy the preconfigured CloudFormation template directly within your AWS account through a guided, transparent setup process.
Review Deployment Access
Inspect requested permissions, created resources, and execution logic before starting any identity or access analysis.
Run IAM Risk Scan
Analyze users, roles, policies, credentials, activity patterns, and compliance controls across seven defined security dimensions.
Calculate Maturity Score
Generate an AWS Cloud Security Maturity Score showing overall control strength and the most significant weaknesses.
Deliver Report to S3
Store the completed PDF inside your S3 bucket and receive notification when report processing finishes successfully.
Delete Temporary Stack
Delete the temporary deployment after completion while retaining every finding securely inside your controlled AWS environment.
AWS IAM Scanner Use Cases
Apply the assessment wherever access weaknesses can delay audits, increase exposure, or undermine customer and stakeholder confidence.
SaaS and Cloud-Native Companies
Prepare for SOC 2 reviews, enterprise security questionnaires, customer assessments, and rapid infrastructure expansion requirements.
Financial Services
Review privileged access, policy gaps, inactive identities, and credential hygiene across regulated financial technology workloads.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Assess controls protecting sensitive patient, research, operational, and regulated information hosted within AWS environments.
E-commerce and Retail
Identify risky access paths surrounding payment systems, customer records, internal applications, and critical operational infrastructure.
Government and Defense
Support least-privilege validation, access certification, and high-assurance identity controls across sensitive technology environments.
FAQs
Get answers about in-account deployment, required permissions, scan duration, S3 report delivery, compliance mapping, and remediation planning. Learn how the assessment reveals privilege creep, ghost identities, credential weaknesses, and policy gaps without moving sensitive data.
What is the AWS IAM Security Scanner?
The scanner evaluates identity, permission, credential, and policy risks directly within your existing AWS account environment. It produces a maturity score, prioritized findings, executive insights, and practical remediation guidance within one consolidated report.
How long does the In-Account IAM Health Check take?
The complete assessment typically finishes within ten to fifteen minutes after the CloudFormation stack deploys successfully. Processing time may vary slightly depending on account size, identity volume, and existing policy complexity.
Does the scanner require AWS credentials or administrator access?
No credentials are shared externally because the assessment runs entirely within your controlled AWS account environment. The deployment uses predefined permissions that teams can review before approving the CloudFormation stack execution.
Does identity information leave our AWS environment?
Sensitive identity information remains inside your account throughout collection, analysis, scoring, report generation, and final storage. The completed assessment report is written directly into your designated S3 bucket for controlled internal access.
What does the AWS Cloud Security Maturity Score measure?
The score evaluates IAM health across seven dimensions covering identities, permissions, credentials, policies, activity, and compliance readiness. It provides a concise benchmark showing overall control strength and highlighting areas requiring immediate attention.
Can the scanner detect ghost identities and dormant access?
Yes, the scanner identifies inactive users, unused roles, stale service accounts, and identities without accountable ownership. These findings help teams remove unnecessary access before dormant accounts become exploitable security or compliance weaknesses.
How does Cloud Privilege Creep Analysis work?
The assessment identifies permissions that expanded beyond current responsibilities, operational requirements, or approved business purposes. Teams can then reduce excessive authority while preserving legitimate access required for applications, users, and services.
Does the report support compliance audits?
The AWS Compliance Audit Tool maps relevant findings to SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and HIPAA controls. This mapping helps security teams prepare evidence, prioritize remediation, and explain IAM weaknesses during formal reviews.
Does the scanner modify existing IAM policies?
No. The assessment identifies risks and recommends corrective actions without changing existing users, roles, policies, or credentials. Teams retain full approval and control over every remediation decision following the completed assessment.
What happens after the assessment finishes?
Teams can delete the temporary CloudFormation deployment while retaining the completed report securely inside their S3 bucket. The findings can guide privilege reduction, identity cleanup, compliance preparation, and recurring security review activities.
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