The 5-Minute Guide to Understanding Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Indeed, Gartner recently reported that among 95% of cloud accounts, fewer than 3% of active entitlements were actually used.1 That means that the vast majority of entitlements create excess privileges—exactly the opposite of what organizations should be striving for as they aim to implement Zero Trust cloud security strategies.

Fortunately, a solution to these challenges has emerged in the form of a new strategy for entitlement management: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). By automatically assessing entitlements in any type of cloud environment and basing them on any access control configuration framework, CIEM enables a more granular, scalable, and comprehensive approach to entitlement management.

This guide explains how to leverage CIEM to improve the security posture of modern cloud-centric environments. It begins by defining CIEM and discussing why CIEM has become so critically difficult in modern environments. It then describes the tools and techniques that enable

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