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Cloud Infrastructure and Entitlements Management (CIEM)

Gain complete visibility and control over cloud permissions to minimize risk and enforce least privilege at scale

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Vice President, Information Security Officer

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Program Vice President, IDC Cybersecurity Products
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)?

CIEM helps organizations understand who and what can access cloud resources, identify excessive or risky permissions, and reduce access according to least-privilege principles. Qualys brings identity and entitlement risk into TotalCloud so permissions can be evaluated alongside other cloud risks.

What types of cloud identities does CIEM analyze?

CIEM is designed to analyze both human and nonhuman cloud identities, including users, groups, roles, service principals, managed identities, service accounts, and other supported workload identities.

Does CIEM inventory cloud identities and entitlements?

Yes. Qualys provides inventory and relationship context for supported cloud identities, resources, roles, and permissions so teams can understand who or what can access critical cloud assets.

What are effective permissions, and why do they matter?

Effective permissions describe what an identity can actually do after accounting for roles, policy inheritance, group membership, and resource-level access—not simply what one policy document says. This creates a more accurate view of access risk.

What cloud identity risks can CIEM identify?

CIEM can identify risks such as excessive permissions, unused or risky access, dangerous entitlement combinations, and identity relationships that may enable privilege escalation or lateral movement.

How does Qualys identify over-privileged identities?

Qualys analyzes entitlement and permission context to highlight identities with access that creates unnecessary risk. Cloud-resource and permission-usage context can then help teams determine where access should be reduced.

How does CIEM support least privilege?

CIEM helps teams identify unnecessary or excessive access so permissions can be reduced to what users and workloads actually require. TotalCloud can also correlate identity risk with the assets and resources those identities can reach.

Can CIEM identify nonhuman or workload identity risk?

Yes. Supported cloud identity analysis includes workload-oriented identities such as service principals, managed identities, and service accounts, which are important because automation and cloud applications often receive powerful permissions.

How does CIEM help reduce cloud attack paths?

By identifying excessive permissions, risky identity relationships, and access paths, CIEM helps teams remove the permissions attackers could use to expand access after compromise.

Can CIEM identify dormant or unused access?

CIEM capabilities are designed to help surface identities and permissions that appear unused or unnecessary, allowing teams to reduce long-lived access that can become an overlooked attack path.