Access Discovery

Discover unused permissions and enforce least privilege

Imagine an IAM role created for a staging service. Over time, it was granted administrator access to production. The staging service was later deprecated, and the role has gone unused for months. Yet its permissions remain active. Now multiply that scenario across hundreds or thousands of identities in your cloud environment. How do you find and fix this kind of unused, overly permissive access at scale?

Access Discovery helps you identify and remediate standing access across cloud environments. It combines access analytics, usage tracking, and policy-based recommendations to support the least privilege for both human and machine identities.

At the core of Access Discovery is the concept of a principal, a digital identity with cloud access. This includes IAM users, roles, service accounts, and programmatic credentials. Each principal is assigned one or more policies, which define its permissions, or the specific actions it can perform.

Access Discovery helps you assess and reduce access risk by:

• Categorizing permissions by privilege level, from low-risk LIST/READ to high-risk Admin/IAM controls

• Tracking whether principals are active or dormant

• Scoring each principal based on its permissions, resource sensitivity, and usage

• Flagging overprivileged principals for targeted remediation

With these insights, you can focus on what matters most: removing unused admin access, quarantining inactive accounts, and right-sizing policies without disrupting legitimate workflows.