auditing-access-control

What problem does it solve?

This skill leverages the access-control-auditor plugin to perform comprehensive audits of access control configurations. It helps identify potential security risks associated with overly permissive access, misconfigured permissions, and non-compliance with security policies across cloud environments, applications, or infrastructure.

Core Features & Use Cases

• IAM Policy Audit: Review AWS IAM policies for overly permissive access.
• ACL Analysis: Assess network ACLs and other access control mechanisms for vulnerabilities.
• Privilege Escalation Detection: Identify potential paths for unauthorized privilege escalation.
• Use Case: Audit AWS IAM policies in your account to identify any overly broad permissions or violations of security best practices.

Quick Start

User request: "Audit the AWS IAM policies in my account for overly permissive access."

The skill will:

1. Invoke the access-control-auditor plugin, specifying the AWS account and IAM policies as the target.
2. Generate a report identifying IAM policies that grant overly broad permissions or violate security best practices.