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Identify risks of excess AWS IAM permissions with the k9 CLI
Now you can quickly identify risks to your data and encryption resources from excess permissions with the k9 CLI.
k9 now analyzes access to AWS Secrets Manager
k9 Security now analyzes principals’ access to the AWS Secrets Manager APIs. k9 reports whether IAM principals may administer, read, write, and delete secrets.
Analyze AWS IAM permissions with the k9 CLI
Often Cloud teams are left in the dark with no way of confidently knowing who can administer IAM, what permissions are actually granted to principals and data resources, whether that access has changed recently. If you are dealing with this, I feel your pain. I know...
Secure AWS data with k9-cdk for CDKv2
Cloud teams struggle to secure data in AWS when they do not have simple infrastructure code libraries built for continuous delivery. So today we are releasing k9-cdk for CDKv2 which helps you provision best practice AWS security policies easily within your existing...
k9 Security is now an AWS Partner
Simplify IAM with k9 Security, AWS Partner k9 Security is now a validated AWS Partner. Cloud teams simplify AWS IAM with k9's usable access analysis and policy automation libraries. k9's IAM access analyzer reports what access each IAM user or role has to critical AWS...
Analyze IAM access to DynamoDB tables with k9 Security
Now you can analyze IAM access to DynamoDB tables with k9 Security. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed database designed to run applications at any scale. AWS customers rely on DynamoDB for business critical data. But it is difficult to understand what IAM users and...
k9 Security Updates – 2022-01
They say the only sure things in life are death and taxes. But I'll add two more: AWS IAM is hardk9 Security is making AWS IAM usable (and it's working!) k9 Security grew a lot in 2021 to help its customers improve and operationalize AWS IAM security. Customers...
Analyze IAM access to RDS databases with k9 Security
Now you can analyze IAM access to Amazon RDS database clusters with k9 Security. Amazon RDS gives you a way to operate a relational database in the cloud. AWS customers rely on RDS database clusters for critical and sensitive data. But it is difficult to understand...
Get notified when AWS IAM administrators change
k9 Security can now notify you when IAM administrators change in your AWS accounts. Understanding and tracking who has IAM administrator access is hard. IAM is extremely flexible and customers change their AWS deployments constantly. k9 Security makes it easier to...
Why AWS IAM is hard, and what to do about it
Learn why AWS IAM is hard by studying the lessons from private interviews and a misconfiguration that resulted in an $80M data breach fine.
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