Cloud IAM Privilege Escalation: Attack Paths Defenders Must Know
Identity and Access Management is the new perimeter. With traditional network boundaries dissolved across multi-cloud environments, IAM misconfigurations have become the primary initial access vector in cloud breaches. Industry reports consistently show that over 75% of cloud security incidents involve IAM misconfigurations or excessive permissions, and the average organization has more than 40% of its cloud identities carrying unused privileged access. Attackers know this — and they are building tooling specifically to enumerate and exploit IAM weaknesses at scale.