Episode 11 — Define cloud IAM fundamentals with least privilege as a living system
This episode establishes the IAM concepts the GPCS exam expects you to apply across cloud providers: principals (users, groups, roles, service identities), authentication versus authorization, policies as explicit statements of allowed actions, and the difference between identity-based and resource-based controls. You’ll treat least privilege as a living system rather than a one-time configuration by learning how permissions drift happens through new services, emergency access, and copy-pasted templates. We’ll connect these ideas to exam questions that test permission intent, inheritance, and effective access, then walk through an example where a workload role only needs read access to a single storage bucket but is mistakenly granted broad listing and key-management permissions. You’ll leave with a repeatable approach: define the job, list required actions, scope to specific resources, and validate effective access with logs and targeted tests. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
