Make Least Privilege Measurable
Define measurable least-privilege criteria for cloud IAM roles.
PADRE least privilege A least-privilege claim should identify principal, action, data or resource, reason, and expiry. Those five fields expose vague access. If a team cannot name the resource, the permission is probably too broad. If it cannot name the reason, the permission is probably inherited habit. If it cannot name expiry, the exception will likely become standing privilege. Cloud IAM is unforgiving because identity is the new perimeter. Network location no longer proves trust. A role attached to compute, a service account in CI/CD, or a federated engineer session can cross account and environment boundaries if policy allows it.…
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