The AWS Identity and Organization teams launched some big improvements to IAM in 2025. Read on for a quick introduction to the six changes we think are most likely to help you make an impact securing your AWS organization and identities: Enforce MFA for root users...
Export Findings from Security Hub in OCSF Format: A Complete Guide
Security teams have long been challenged by security findings scattered across many tools in proprietary formats that don’t play well together. If you’re managing AWS Security Hub findings and need to analyze them alongside data from other security tools, you’ve likely...
k9 Security launches initial support for automated IAM security review with findings in OCSF format
k9 Security now automates two critical IAM security review processes and produces high-signal findings in Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) format. This new capability significantly enhances your ability to identify and address critical IAM security risks in...
AWS IAM Users vs. Identity Center & JIT: Is Your Cloud Access Strategy Secure or Stalling?
This article was originally written by Cloudanix Introduction The way we manage access in AWS has changed IAM dramatically. When many organizations first ventured into the cloud, creating individual AWS IAM users directly within each account was standard practice. Fast...
Scaling IAM Security For Major Cloud Platforms: Insights from the ScaleToZero Podcast
In a recent episode of the ScaleToZero podcast powered by Cloudanix, k9 Security’s founder, Stephen Kuenzli, broke down one of the most persistent challenges in cloud security: how to scale identity and access management (IAM) in large, fast-moving engineering...
k9 Security Now Resolves Well-Known AWS Account Owners for Enhanced Visibility
Now k9 Security resolves the account owners for external access from well-known accounts, providing greater clarity and context to your AWS resource access reports. This update simplifies how security teams identify and understand external access to their AWS...