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Remediating Privilege Escalation

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Problem

Explain how you would identify and remediate privilege escalation paths in AWS or GCP.

Discuss how you would model identities, roles, policies, trust relationships, service accounts, and delegated permissions. Cover the tools, evidence, remediation strategy, validation tests, and monitoring you would use, including how you handle emergency access and avoid breaking production workloads.