Tag: SCPs

By engaging AWS and Vertical Relevance, the customer was able to automate their deployment of SCPs across their AWS Organization. After implementing a multi-stage pipeline that performed automated checks to ensure that SCPs were compliant with security policies and did not contradict service usage across their accounts, the customer could quickly and reliably make changes to SCPs. With these changes in place, the Security Team updated organization-wide security controls quicker and with more confidence, which drastically improved the overall security posture of the customer.

While there are many different components involved with securing the cloud, a carefully architected IAM strategy is paramount. A solid IAM strategy allows engineers to develop quickly, provides key stakeholders with a comprehensive picture of the actions that can be performed by different IAM principals, and results in a more secure cloud environment overall. Security without reasonable user experience can lead to workarounds and dysfunction, and by implementing this solution, both key stakeholders and engineers can all be satisfied with the result.