Sonrai Security

What Sonrai Security actually does

Sonrai Security provides cloud identity governance — specifically, it maps who and what can access sensitive data across your cloud environments. The platform analyzes IAM policies, roles, service accounts, and resource-level permissions to build a complete picture of effective access across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The core value is finding hidden risk in cloud permissions. Overprivileged service accounts. Toxic combinations of permissions that individually look fine but together create admin-equivalent access. Roles that can escalate privileges through chains of trust relationships. These are the access paths that attackers exploit and that manual IAM reviews miss.

Sonrai assigns risk scores to identities based on what they can actually do — not just what policies say they should do. The platform also tracks data access to sensitive resources like S3 buckets, databases, and key vaults, showing which identities have paths to crown jewel data.

Who it’s best for

• Multi-cloud enterprises running workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP that need unified identity visibility
• Security teams responsible for cloud IAM governance who struggle with native cloud IAM tooling
• Organizations with hundreds of service accounts and automated workloads creating permission sprawl
• Companies in regulated industries that need to demonstrate least-privilege enforcement and data access controls
• Cloud security architects tasked with reducing identity-based attack surface

Pricing reality check

Sonrai prices based on the number of cloud accounts and resources under management. For large multi-cloud environments, the cost is meaningful but typically justified by the reduction in audit effort and risk reduction. Smaller cloud deployments may not generate enough complexity to warrant the investment.

Compare against cloud-native tools first. AWS IAM Access Analyzer, Azure Permissions Management (Entra), and GCP IAM Recommender are free or included. They are less capable than Sonrai for cross-cloud analysis, but they may be sufficient for single-cloud environments.

Alternatives to consider

• Ermetic (now part of Tenable) — Similar CIEM capabilities. Now integrated into Tenable’s broader CNAPP platform.
• CrowdStrike CIEM — Cloud identity analysis within the Falcon platform. Useful if you are already a CrowdStrike customer.
• Zscaler CIEM — Part of the Zscaler Posture Control platform. Broader cloud security, less identity depth.
• Microsoft Entra Permissions Management — Native Microsoft CIEM. Strong for Azure, less mature for AWS and GCP.

The Charting Cyber take

Sonrai Security tackles one of the hardest problems in cloud security: understanding who can actually do what. Cloud IAM is absurdly complex, and effective permissions are almost never what you think they are when you read the policy documents. Sonrai makes this visible and measurable.

The catch is that visibility without action is just expensive anxiety. Your team needs the cloud maturity and political capital to actually remediate overprivileged identities — and in most organizations, those identities belong to production workloads that nobody wants to touch. Sonrai tells you the truth. Acting on it is your problem.