IAM Song: Keys to the Cloud
Written & Produced by Chase Christy, k9 Security
Bang your head with IAM, not against it.
Scale security with simple IAM monitoring and IaC built for continuous delivery.
Lyrics
(Verse 1)
We’ve got our apps deployed to the cloud
But now our customers are screamin’ loud
Some pipeline just deleted our production DB
Now I’m feeling so sorry
(Pre Chorus)
It’s too hard to write policies that do what we intend
Too hard to understand our effective access
All this talk about least-privilege and shared responsibility…
Wish someone would just give me the key!
(Chorus)
IAM! Once you learn it you can go fast safely
IAM! Lock it down and improve security greatly
IAM! Rest assured your data’s safe on the daily
IAM! Empower engineers for security scaling!
(Verse 2)
Protecting data needs a better technique
Resource policies enforcing privilege in the least
Only authorize access for principals we list
Enforce encryption in transport and at rest
(Pre Chorus 2)
It’s too hard to write policies that do what we intend
It’s too hard to understand our effective access
Allow action-resource star is making me cry
Stop unintended access with deny, deny, deny
(Chorus)
IAM! Once you learn it you can go fast safely
IAM! Lock it down and improve security greatly
IAM! Rest assured your data’s safe on the daily
IAM! Empower your engineers for security scaling!
(Bridge)
Engineers want their policies to be sound
Their biggest fear is letting customers down
But Dev and testing is runnin’ them into the ground
We Gotta simplify IAM and we’ve got to do it now!
(Chorus)
IAM! Once you learn it you can go fast safely
IAM! Lock it down and improve security greatly
IAM! Rest assured your data’s safe on the daily
IAM! Empower your engineers for security scaling!