Automated identity governance and compliance auditing across AWS, run and verified with Sia.

You open IAM. Ten users, and you start clicking into each one. MFA enabled, check. Admin permissions, check. Last login, check. Access key age, check.

Ten users an afternoon. A hundred is a week, if anyone actually finishes it.

By the time you compile the report, one more key is a day older and one more account has gone quiet. Nothing you found is still exactly true.

A real audit covers more than whether MFA is on. It checks for accounts that have gone stale, permissions that grant more than the person actually needs, and keys that have sat unrotated long enough to be a problem. Miss one of those, and the audit still fails.

The checklist that never finishes

Every identity audit runs the same four checks, no matter how many users are in the directory.

Checking MFA status. Open each user, look for the checkbox, note it down, move to the next. Skip one under time pressure and it is the one that matters.

Hunting for wildcard admin permissions. Buried inside a policy document, easy to miss unless someone opens each one and reads it end to end.

Flagging stale accounts. A user who has not logged in for ninety days is still a live door until someone notices and closes it.

Checking access key age. Keys do not expire on their own. Past ninety days unrotated, and usually nobody finds out until the audit does.

Turning all four checks into one report someone can act on. Four separate lists, cross-referenced by hand, assembled into something a compliance review will actually accept.

None of this is hard on its own. Multiply it by every user in the directory and it becomes the task nobody finishes before the deadline. And the check most likely to get rushed, reading every policy document for a wildcard grant, is the one worth catching most.

What we asked Sia to do

Here is that same audit, handed to Sia as one plain-English instruction, typed into the Sia CLI against an AWS account with ten IAM users:

"Execute an IAM compliance audit across the entire user directory. Look for any critical security gaps. Specifically flag any accounts that have not been used in over 90 days. Check for accounts with missing MFA, and let me know the profiles that have overboarded with wildcard admin permissions. Also let me know the keys that have not been rotated for more than 90 days."

Sia broke that into seven steps and ran all of them. It verified AWS CLI access. It generated a credentials report. It checked every account for ninety days of inactivity. It flagged missing MFA. It identified profiles carrying wildcard admin permissions. It checked every access key for rotation age. Then it compiled the findings into one IAM compliance report.

The results came back specific, not just a summary count. Eight of the ten users were missing MFA. Three profiles carried wildcard admin permissions, more access than any of those roles needed. One account, used for testing, had not logged in for a hundred and seven days and had never even used its password. Three access keys had gone unrotated over the past ninety days.

Sia did not stop at the findings. Alongside the report, it returned the remediation path for each one: enable MFA on the flagged accounts, scope down the wildcard permissions to what each role actually needs, rotate the stale keys. The audit and the fix arrived together.

The same instruction works at any scale. Point it at an account with five hundred users instead of ten, and the loop does not change, only the runtime does. Ask Sia to re-run the same audit next quarter, and it runs the identical check without anyone rewriting the instruction.

Watch it happen

The full audit above, run and verified live in AWS IAM. 

Before Sia, with Sia

Before Sia: open every user in IAM and check the MFA box one at a time.
With Sia: one instruction, every user checked, in the time it takes to read the output.

Before Sia: read through each user's policy document by hand, looking for a wildcard grant nobody flagged.
With Sia: ask, and every wildcard permission comes back by name.

Before Sia: track access key age in a spreadsheet you update when you remember to.
With Sia: ask which keys are past ninety days, and get the real answer back in seconds.

Before Sia: find a stale account at the next audit, months after it should have been caught.
With Sia: ask right now, instead of waiting for the audit to find it.

Before Sia: finish the audit, then start a second pass to work out what to actually fix.
With Sia: the findings and the remediation path arrive in the same report.

What Sia actually touches

Sia works directly against AWS IAM: users, groups, roles, access keys, MFA device status, and the permission policies attached to each identity. This demo ran against a single AWS account. The same audit logic applies to any account Sia is connected to.

The audit itself only reads state, it does not change anything. When the next step is action, enabling MFA on a flagged account, tightening a wildcard policy, rotating a key, that request runs through the same governance that lets Sia act on production systems anywhere else: a mutation gate with three verdicts, allow, require approval, or block, sensitive changes queued for a human, destructive operations blocked outright, and every action written to an append-only, HMAC-signed audit log that exports with its signatures intact. When the next audit asks who has access to what, the answer is a query against a signed record, not a fresh round of clicking through IAM.

This is not only an IT admin's job anymore

None of this needs an IT admin at the keyboard for every request. A compliance lead prepping for a review does not need to file a ticket and wait for someone in IT to pull the IAM report by Friday. They can ask Sia directly, scoped to what they are allowed to see, and get the answer today. Ask Sia to check keys or permissions in an account outside that scope, and it will not. Access control did not disappear. Sia runs inside the role-based scope you set, so the permission model moves from "a human clicking with admin rights" to "an agent acting within a policy you defined."

It is the same Sia whether the request comes in through the command line, the web, or the desktop app. The surface is just the door.

What this actually changes

Audits stop being a scramble before the deadline and start being an answer available whenever someone asks for it. Missing MFA, stale accounts, wildcard permissions, and unrotated keys get caught the week they happen, not the quarter an audit finally goes looking. Remediation paths arrive with the findings instead of after a second pass. And the checklist that used to eat an afternoon per ten users takes the time it takes to read a report.

The audit was always going to happen. Now it happens before anyone has to ask for it, at the speed you actually work.

Availability

IAM compliance auditing runs on the AWS integration that is in Sia now, across the Sia CLI, the Sia Desktop App, and the web. We deliver Sia as part of the Scogo platform to enterprise customers, so there is no public download.

If your team runs AWS and spends its days clicking through IAM users one at a time before every audit, we want to put Sia in front of your account. Start with a pilot at scogo.ai/request-demo.

Autonomous where it is safe, governed where it matters, on the record everywhere.