Optimize GCP User Entitlements

Manage User Entitlements with Detail Drawers

To reduce the entitlements for a particular user, click on the account name to open the detail drawer and sub-tabs.

The Users page organizes everything around the individual user.

• Summary: Displays the critical permissions issues detected for this user, sorted by Risk and Actionable Risk.
• Remediation Strategies: Summarizes all the potential strategies to reduce the permissions for this user

If Sysdig has been profiling a user for less than 90 days, you will see the following message:

We recommend a 90 day period to pass before applying remediation optimizations to establish a good baseline for used permissions.

Understand User Permissions

Hover over the % Unused Permissions column to see the permissions granted to a user:

• Total Permissions: The total number of permissions granted to a user from all the roles the user is bound to.
• Unused Permissions: The total number of unused permissions from all the roles that bound to a user.

Remediation Strategies

Detach Role from this User

• All the roles that are totally unused by this user will get this recommendation
• If there are multiple detach recommendation, they are sorted based on the largest reduction in unused permissions.

Consolidate Permissions

Create a new custom role for the user with only a subset of used permissions.

This mechanism considers all the actions taken by this user across all its roles and consolidate them into one user-specific custom role. There will only be one custom role suggestion per user.

Reduce Permissions with Existing Roles

Replace the existing role with a different role.

Sysdig recommends replacing a bound role with an existing role that contains all the permissions used by the current role but has fewer total permissions overall.