CIEM follows a continuous lifecycle that helps organizations manage identities and permissions securely over time.

CIEM provides granular visibility into cloud identities and their entitlements by continuously analyzing cloud activity and policy structures.

This includes:

• Human and non-human identities
• Native and federated identities
• IAM policies and resource policies
• Access control lists and boundaries

CIEM correlates permissions across cloud providers, because each provider uses different mechanisms and vocabulary for access control.

CIEM provides table-based and visual views to understand access available to each identity, highlight risky permissions, and quantify access risk.

CIEM continuously removes excessive permissions and enforces the principle of least privilege.

The lifecycle includes detection, remediation, and policy enforcement to maintain a secure cloud identity posture.