Cloud Entitlement Management (CIEM): Taming Permissions Creep in AWS, Azure & GCP

Tag: EverydayIdentity Editor’s Note (September 2025): This guide is aligned to the latest NIST publications issued last month, including SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0 (with new software-update/patch and cyber-resiliency emphasis) and SP 800-63 Revision 4 (updated Digital Identity Guidelines). We also reference the SP 1800-35 Zero Trust practice guide finalized this summer to ground CIEM in current best practice. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} TL;DR Multi-cloud is powerful—and dangerously permissive by default. Over time, identities (humans and workloads) accumulate access they no longer need....

September 24, 2025 · 8 min · Jay Klinkowsky