--- title: Close the Cloud Identity Gap with Orca and AWS IAM... description: Cloud IAM permissions accumulate faster than teams can audit them, creating exploitable security gaps. AWS IAM Access Analyzer continuously evaluates resource... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/close-the-cloud-identity-gap-with-orca-and-aws-iam-access-analyzer-qhqph5vym twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Close the Cloud Identity Gap with Orca and AWS IAM Access Analyzer | daily.dev og:description: Cloud IAM permissions accumulate faster than teams can audit them, creating exploitable security gaps. AWS IAM Access Analyzer continuously evaluates resource... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/close-the-cloud-identity-gap-with-orca-and-aws-iam-access-analyzer-qhqph5vym og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QHQPh5VyM.png og:image:alt: Close the Cloud Identity Gap with Orca and AWS IAM Access Analyzer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Close the Cloud Identity Gap with Orca and AWS IAM Access Analyzer **[Orca Security Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/orca-security-blog)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloud IAM permissions accumulate faster than teams can audit them, creating exploitable security gaps. AWS IAM Access Analyzer continuously evaluates resource policies to surface external access, internal access, and unused access findings. Orca Security integrates these findings directly into asset context, allowing security teams to see all 500+ findings alongside asset metadata in one interface — eliminating tool-switching and enabling risk-based prioritization rather than raw finding volume. Key stats: 78% of organizations have at least one IAM role unused for 90+ days, and three of the top four causes of cloud breaches are identity-related (excessive permissions, inconsistent access controls, weak identity hygiene). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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