Cloud IAM Permission Boundary Visualizer for Security Teams
Security teams cannot visualize the effective permissions of cloud IAM roles when permission boundaries, SCPs, resource policies, and session policies interact. AWS alone has 5 policy types that combine in non-obvious ways, making access reviews guesswork.
Problem Statement
Security teams review IAM policies individually but cannot compute effective access when boundaries, SCPs, and resource policies interact. AWS Policy Simulator helps for single-role queries but doesn't provide the big picture across accounts. Access reviews take weeks of manual analysis and are outdated by the time they complete.
The Idea
A permission boundary visualizer that computes and displays effective permissions by resolving all policy layers, highlights over-permissioned roles, simulates access decisions for specific resources, and generates compliance-ready access matrices.
Why Now
The 2025-2026 growth of multi-account AWS architectures and the enforcement of permission boundaries by security teams created complexity that manual policy review cannot handle. New AWS services add hundreds of IAM actions per year.
Target User
Engineering teams and platform engineers at mid-size to large technology companies
Target Market
B2B SaaS companies with 20-500 engineers investing in developer infrastructure and operational tooling
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