Overprivilege Analysis of Security Policies in Serverless Cloud Applications
Research tackles the chronic overprivilege problem in serverless cloud applications, where distributed function architectures make least-privilege IAM policies hard to specify—directly relevant to enterprises scaling Lambda/Cloud Functions.
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arXiv:2607.02875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Serverless computing has seen rapid adoption in cloud deployments, yet the security implications of its service-oriented programming model remain poorly understood. Distributed, modular, and heterogeneous applications complicate the specification of precise security policies. Role-based access control solutions such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) already exhibit pervasive misconfiguration problems, and the multiplicity of functions, servi
Editorial Analysis
Serverless adoption amplifies IAM sprawl; systematic overprivilege analysis can prevent lateral movement paths that attackers exploit in cloud-native environments.
Audit serverless function IAM policies for overprivilege using automated tooling and enforce per-function least-privilege boundaries.
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