| CPC G06F 21/53 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |

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1. A method for detecting excessive permissions of a principal in a cloud computing environment, comprising:
accessing a configuration code, the configuration code including a plurality of code objects, wherein a code object of the plurality of code objects corresponds to a deployed principal in the cloud computing environment;
detecting in a log a plurality of access events, each access event associated with a first principal deployed in the cloud computing environment based on a first code object of the plurality of code objects;
determining that the first code object includes a permission which is not utilized in any of the plurality of access events; and
initiating a mitigation action for the first principal based on the permission.
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