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Connecting AWS and SailPoint CIEM

Once you have configured your AWS account, you can connect it to IdentityNow to display the total effective access users have to your cloud systems and resources. To display this data, you must use the AWS IAM and CIEM AWS cloud governance connectors.
AWS IAM connector Allows you to manage your AWS IAM users and groups in IdentityNow.

If your organization has licensed a SailPoint cloud management solution, it will also gather data about the cloud access granted to users through policies, roles, organization unit, and AWS accounts.
CIEM AWS cloud governance connector Works with your AWS IAM connector to collect cloud resource data and display the total access an identity has to your cloud systems.

FedRamp Limitations

CIEM FedRamp customers can register a maximum of 650 AWS member accounts.

You may connect your AWS IAM and CIEM AWS cloud governance sources in any order.

After you've connected and aggregated your cloud accounts and entitlements, you will mark your IAM and AWS Identity Center (if using) entitlements as cloud enabled. This will allow you to view the cloud access granted through entitlements and include those entitlements in certification campaigns.

Connecting AWS IAM

Follow the directions to connect your AWS IAM governance source.

You will then use the CIEM AWS cloud governance connector to display all access users have to your cloud resources.

Connecting AWS Cloud Governance

The CIEM AWS source pulls daily data about the cloud resources users can access. Users can be IAM, AWS Identity Center, Azure IDP, or Okta IDP.

You can use the information from verifying your configuration to register CIEM and IdentityNow:

  1. Go to Admin > Connections > Create New.
  2. Find and select the CIEM AWS source type.
  3. Enter a source name.
  4. Enter a description for your source.
  5. In the Source Owner field, begin typing the name of an owner. Matches appear after you type two letters.
  6. (Optional) Select a governance group for source management.
  7. Select Connection Settings.
  8. Enter the Role ARN for the role generated when creating an IAM role.
  9. Enter the External ID generated when creating an IAM role.

  10. (Optional) Enter the CloudTrail ARN for an organization or individual member account. You can add up to 150 CloudTrail ARNs, separated by commas.

    • If your organization is using a different CloudTrail events S3 bucket from this member account, enter the Account ID for the CloudTrail Bucket Account you are using.

  11. If the source uses a single account (as opposed to the organization account), select the Single Account toggle.

  12. Select Save.
  13. Select Review and Test.

  14. Review the configuration details and select Test Connection. A successful test is required for CIEM to gather data for this source.

    Notes

    • CloudTrail ARNs are tested asynchronously. If a CloudTrail cannot be connected, an error will display in the event logs.
    • If the test connection fails, you can use the Search query name:“Test_connection Source Failed” for more information.

  15. (Optional) Enable native change detection. You can monitor your AWS Identity Center Groups and ICAccountAssignments entitlement attributes for changes made outside of IdentityNow, as well as non-entitlement attributes. Select Save.

After a successful test connection, you can set the source scope or move on to managing your cloud accounts and entitlements.

Setting Source Scope

By default, CIEM reads and automatically discovers changes to your cloud infrastructure, which are displayed in the Cloud Scopes section of your CIEM source configuration. You can choose to exclude scopes to prevent CIEM from including data for those accounts.

To change the scope of your included source data:

  1. In the CIEM AWS source, select Cloud Scopes under Aggregation and Provisioning.
  2. Use the checkboxes to change which accounts are included. Removing a scope disables Auto-Include Scopes.
  3. Select Save.

CIEM will now only read and include data from your selected scopes. When Auto-Include Scopes is disabled, new and deleted accounts in your cloud system will be detected, but they will not be automatically included in your CIEM data until you select them individually or reenable Auto-Include Scopes.

Notes

  • You can search for scopes as well as filter by selected and unselected scopes.
  • The Last Refreshed time is when changes to your source inventory were last detected by CIEM. This is separate from aggregation.

When you finish selecting your source scopes, you will then need to manage your AWS entitlements.