Cloud/Organization Policy Discovery

Threat actors may gather information on Cloud Organization Policies (e.g., AWS SCPs) or IAM boundaries to identify paths for privilege escalation and understand the security constraints applied to the tenancy.

ID: ATAGS-T1133
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
Tactic: Discovery
Targeted Components: Cloud Control Plane
Responsibility: Provider
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.