graypointFOR THE DECISION MAKER
Know what you’re buying.
A focused AWS IAM assessment with ranked findings, identity paths, and remediation priorities. Review what is included and the scope questions to settle before work begins.
Explore the assessmentAWS IAM RISK ASSESSMENT / GRAYPOINT
Know where
your access
leads.
Cloud security. Starting with identity.
graypoint traces permissions and trust relationships across your AWS environment. Our IAM Risk Assessment gives you the identity paths that matter and a prioritized plan for what to fix first.
IDENTITY IS CONNECTED.SO IS THE RISK.
One role is rarely the whole story.Conceptual illustration of connected access.
GP—07A SPECIALIST POINT OF VIEW
Permissions pile up.
We get to the point.
Every role has a purpose. Over time, its permissions can tell a different story.
graypoint is a cloud security consultancy, starting with AWS IAM. We help teams running multi-account AWS understand the access their policies allow, the paths it can enable, and where to act. Our current service is a focused IAM Risk Assessment, with a brief that gives leadership perspective and engineers direction.
See assessment scope↳ AWS IAM focused◌ Read-only by design⌁ Deterministic analysis▤ An actionable brief
THE WORK
Know the reach.
Reduce the risk.
The graypoint IAM Risk Assessment, built around three questions that deserve clear answers.
IDENTITY RISK ASSESSMENT
Which identities
carry the most risk?
Policies accumulate. Access expands. We examine your AWS roles, users, and trust relationships to understand where permissions within the agreed assessment scope have drifted from intent.
- Identify the most consequential roles and users
- Understand the reasons behind the ranking
- Give your team a shared view of exposure
FROM COMPLEXITY TO PERSPECTIVEGP / 01
Every connection adds context.Illustrative identity model
ESCALATION PATH ANALYSIS
What can ordinary
access become?
Risk often lives between identities. We trace permissions and trust-policy chains to show how an entry role can reach something much more consequential.
- Trace concrete paths from policy
- Understand each connection in plain language
- Distinguish account-level access from guardrails
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCEGP / 02
- ENTRY POINTci-deploy
- PassRole + Lambdalambda-exec
- AssumeRolerole/admin
One role. A chain of permissions.
A different picture of exposure.
Illustrative account-level pathGuardrails require validation
REMEDIATION PRIORITIES
Where should
your team start?
Findings become useful when they lead to a decision. We connect each recommendation to the exposure it addresses, with a clear order of work.
- A prioritized fix-first plan
- Specific policy changes and their purpose
- Confidence tiers that keep uncertainty visible
FROM FINDING TO ACTIONGP / 03
01
Scope the permission.Limit PassRole to the intended role ARN.
↗02
Tighten the trust.Replace overly broad role principals.
03
Remove standing exposure.Review and retire unused privileged access.
A plan your engineers can act on.Illustrative actions
Findings reflect account-level permissions. SCPs, permission boundaries, and other limiting controls are recorded where available; missing context and validation requirements stay explicit.
THE WAY WE WORK
Read the model.
Explain the risk.
We start with the decision you need to make. Then we bring the right level of scrutiny to the identity model behind it.
Start a conversationREAD-ONLY. BY DESIGN.
No agents. No write permissions.
- 01
Define the question.
We discuss your environment, the decisions ahead, and what prompted the assessment. Together, we agree on the scope.
- 02
Examine the evidence.
Connect a scoped, read-only IAM role. graypoint collects the agreed identity evidence and traces permission paths, with limiting controls and validation gaps made explicit.
- 03
Put the priorities in order.
Your IAM Risk Brief connects the findings to action: the identities that matter, the paths they enable, and what to change first.
graypointA clearer view.
THE WORK, IN ONE DOCUMENT.THE IAM RISK BRIEF
A clearer view.
A practical
way forward.
THE GRAYPOINT BRIEF
Something to
move forward with.
Built for a leader to read end to end.
Precise enough for the engineer making the changes.
01
Executive perspectiveYour identity risk, in plain language.
02
The evidence behind the findingsRanked identities, paths, and confidence tiers.
03
A practical course of actionOrdered remediations and the exposure each closes.
BEFORE YOU START
A clear scope.
A useful decision.
Understand the assessment, inspect the output, and bring the right people into the conversation.
FOR THE TEAM CHAMPION
Make the internal case.
Use the sample brief to show colleagues how evidence connects to a decision. It contains a synthetic example, clearly labeled, so you can evaluate the format without an introduction.
Read the sample briefFOR THE ENGINEER
Look behind the finding.
Understand the read-only approach, the evidence behind a candidate path, and the controls that can limit it. Bring your access requirements and validation questions to scoping.
Review the approachTHE PLACE WHERE COMPLEXITY BECOMES CLARITY.
Find your
graypoint
WORK WITH GRAYPOINT
Let’s map
your next move.
Tell us what prompted the review, roughly how many AWS accounts are in scope, and the decision your team needs to make. The next step is to discuss fit and agree the scope, fee, and schedule before an engagement.
hello@graypoint.ioFocused expertise.
Independent thinking.
A clear way forward.