IAM misconfigurations

Unused IAM Group

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks

Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD), CCPA, cis_8, CPRA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices, GDPR, iso_27001_2022, iso_27002_2022, mpa, New Zealand Information Security Manual, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, Orca Best Practices, PDPA, UK Cyber Essentials

Description

Removing orphaned and unused IAM groups eliminates the risk that a forgotten group will be used accidentally to allow unauthorized users to access AWS resources