CLOUD-SECURITY5 MIN READ
Sort IAM Smells From Valid Patterns
Classify cloud IAM patterns as strong, risky, or emergency-only.
Sort each IAM pattern by its access-risk posture. Strong pattern Risky smell Emergency-only CI deploy role limited to tagged staging resources User group with AdministratorAccess and no review date Break-glass role with alerting and two-hour session Service account with long-lived key unused for 190 days Read role scoped to one reporting bucket prefix Shared admin login stored in a password manager Privileged incident role requiring ticket approval Function role can read only one named secret sort-buckets score-chips marigold-feedback
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