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Introduction to cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM)
From the course: Learning Identity Governance
Introduction to cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM)
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management, or CIEM is a specialized security process for managing identities and access in cloud and multi-cloud environments. From applications to databases, file shares and more, if it exists in the cloud, then an entitlement is tied to it and that entitlement is assigned to a user, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. So, user Sheila is assigned to entitlement admin. Or indirectly, user Sheila is assigned to group admins, which is assigned to server role, which is assigned to entitlement admin. Either way, Sheila has admin access to a cloud resource. Cool. So, why should you care? Because cloud resources are highly dynamic, and the very nature of the cloud is that it's accessible everywhere. So, keeping track of all the permissions to cloud resources can be a daunting task. Each cloud provider has their own access model and way that users get assigned access. As cloud technology has become the standard. It's important to understand how to…
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