Avoid IAM Drifts Using Explicit-Deny

Written by Israel Chorzevsk. Background Over the last decade, cloud providers advanced their authorization mechanism, and added more and more ways to grant access to resources. Having multiple ways to grant access may lead to authorization drifts. This post describes several authorization features that may lead to such drift and proposes to use explicit-deny over implicit-deny whenever possible. Note that cloud service providers implement their IAM model differently and use different terms ...

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