Cybersecurity is always in a state of change. There are new security features and new attack methods – or was it the other way? Over the past months, several new security features were added to IBM Cloud. In this blog post, I want to quickly describe them and point you to IBM Cloud blog posts where I discuss them in greater detail.
Custom Roles
To access resources in an IBM Cloud account, a user, service ID or trusted profile needs the proper authorization. For that, you must check the assigned, existing privileges against the required ones. With IBM Cloud IAM (Identity and Access Management), the privileges refer to the type of action that is performed. Hence, you often read about actions that are mapped to roles. There are predefined platform roles or service roles. And you can define custom roles that even can combine privileges on the platform and service level.
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Written by Henrik Loeser.