Data Exfiltration Prevention
Risk: Over-permissioned identities may access and export sensitive data from services like S3 or RDS.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Identify human identities with direct access to sensitive data stores.
Flag unused or excessive permissions (e.g., wildcard S3 permissions).
Automate permission right-sizing to enforce least privilege.
Integrate with KMS key policies to ensure only approved identities can decrypt data.
Credential Compromise
Risk: Stolen or leaked IAM credentials can be used to access critical AWS services.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Detect long-lived IAM users and encourage short-lived session-based access.
Highlight dormant users or credentials for deactivation.
Enforce MFA via identity center integration.
Support policy conditions like IP or device-based restrictions.
Privilege Escalation Prevention
Risk: Misconfigured roles or policies allow users to grant themselves or others elevated access.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Detect toxic combinations (e.g., iam:CreateRole + iam:AttachPolicy).
Recommend permissions boundaries and SCPs to prevent escalation paths.
Provide alerts and remediation for privilege anomalies.
Attack Surface Reduction
Risk: Broad or excessive permissions increase the likelihood of accidental or malicious misuse.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Surface least-used permissions for review.
Enable periodic right-sizing based on CloudTrail activity.
Reduce high-risk permissions like admin access unless justified.
Blast Radius Containment
Risk: A compromised identity has excessive reach, impacting multiple services or accounts.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Restrict roles to specific accounts or services.
Limit access scope using IAM conditions and SCPs.
Support organization-wide policies for safe defaults.
Lateral Movement Risk
Risk: Compromised users with cross-account trust or broad IAM privileges may pivot into other environments.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Visualize cross-account role assumptions and access paths.
Detect overly permissive trust relationships.
Recommend and enforce tighter trust policies.
Support SCPs to restrict role assumption across accounts.
Crypto Mining Detection & Mitigation
Risk: Attackers exploit compromised identities to launch unauthorized EC2 or container workloads.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Detect permission sets with EC2:RunInstances or EKS:RunPod permissions.
Flag suspicious usage patterns via CloudTrail analysis.
Suggest SCPs to restrict service usage in non-prod or sensitive accounts.
Governance and Policy Hygiene for Human Access
Risk: Inconsistent or outdated access policies lead to audit failures and security drift.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Enable automated access reviews and evidence collection.
Provide access visibility across AWS accounts and identity providers.
Enforce naming and tagging standards for IAM roles and users.
Compliance Framework Alignment
Risk: Failure to meet access governance requirements for frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Map controls to compliance standards (e.g., least privilege, MFA, access reviews).
Automate evidence generation and export.
Enforce preventive controls aligned with compliance requirements.
Segregation of Duties
Risk: A single user holds permissions that should be split across multiple roles for control and oversight.
InstaWorkforce Solution:
Detect roles with conflicting responsibilities (e.g., deploy + approve).
Recommend role decomposition.
Enforce separation via permission design and cross-role limitations.
Proactively govern human access in AWS and reduce cloud identity risks. InstaWorkforce gives you the tools to see, control, and reduce that risk.