About Customer
Cingularity
Cingularity is a cloud-native Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform built to help modern DevSecOps teams implement least privilege access by design. With a focus on security, automation, and developer experience, Cingularity provides centralized access control, self-service access requests, AI-powered permission recommendations, and detailed audit trails. It seamlessly integrates with cloud-native tools like AWS CLI making it ideal for both security administrators and engineering teams. Cingularity empowers organizations to simplify access governance, reduce the risk of over-privileged access, and ensure compliance across dynamic cloud environments.
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Executive Summary
The Challenge
Complex IAM Policy Design
Security administrators are frequently tasked with designing IAM policies that enforce least privilege—ensuring users and services have exactly the permissions they need, and nothing more. Manually crafting or validating these policies often requires deep knowledge of AWS permissions, internal access patterns, and evolving best practices.
Time-Intensive Validation
Common admin queries such as:
“What is the least privileged IAM policy for a user who only needs read access to S3 and can deploy to ECS?” can take hours of investigation, involving cross-referencing documentation, analyzing logs, and reviewing internal standards.
Risk of Overprivileged Access
Without automation, teams often default to broader permissions for speed, leading to elevated risks of privilege escalation and compliance issues.
Why Choose This Solution?
Cingularity aimed to deliver a fast, intelligent, and explainable solution to help security administrators eliminate over-permissioned roles without compromising agility. The IAM Policy Advisor was designed to solve this pain point by offering AI-powered guidance that aligned with AWS IAM best practices, internal policies, and real-world audit data.
The Solution: IAM Policy Advisor
Cingularity developed and deployed the IAM Policy Advisor in just one week—an AI-enhanced tool that empowers security admins to instantly generate and validate least-privilege IAM policies based on specific role or task requirements.
Key Features:
Context-Aware Recommendations:
Uses audit logs and access patterns to suggest permissions tailored to real-world usage.
Internal Policy Template Integration:
Automatically aligns new policies with the organization's predefined IAM standards.
AWS Best Practices Embedded:
Cross-references the latest IAM security guidelines to avoid known misconfigurations.
Explainable Output:
Clearly communicates why each permission is included, helping admins understand and trust policy decisions.
Instant Validation:
Evaluates proposed policies against internal compliance rules and flags excessive permissions.
Results & Benefits
The IAM Policy Advisor tool significantly boosted both security posture and operational efficiency for Cingularity’s security teams. By automating the generation and validation of least-privilege policies, teams saved valuable time while ensuring tighter access control across cloud resources.
Key Results:
- 80% Reduction in Policy Creation Time: Security admins generated accurate policies in minutes, instead of hours.
- Improved Security Posture: Reduced risk of over-privileged IAM roles and minimized potential attack surfaces.
- Enhanced Compliance: Ensured alignment with internal governance frameworks and AWS-recommended best practices.
- Operational Agility: Enabled faster onboarding of users and roles without compromising security.
- Knowledge Transfer: The explainable AI component educated junior admins and developers on least privilege principles, accelerating team capability building.
