Cloud identity and access management in Cybersecurity - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Cloud Identity and Access Management Basics

📖 Scenario: You are working in a company that uses cloud services. To keep the cloud resources safe, you need to manage who can access what. This is called Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM). You will create a simple list of users and their roles, then set rules to control access.

🎯 Goal: Build a basic cloud IAM setup by creating a list of users with roles, defining access levels, assigning permissions based on roles, and finalizing the access control list.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary named users with exact user names and roles

Create a dictionary named access_levels with role names and their access rights

Create a new dictionary named permissions that maps each user to their access rights using dictionary comprehension

Add a final key policy_version with value "2024-01-01" to the permissions dictionary

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Cloud IAM is used by companies to control who can access cloud resources like servers, databases, and applications securely.

💼 Career

Understanding IAM basics is essential for cybersecurity roles, cloud administrators, and IT professionals managing cloud environments.

1

Create the user roles dictionary

Create a dictionary called users with these exact entries: 'alice': 'admin', 'bob': 'editor', 'carol': 'viewer', 'dave': 'editor'.

Cybersecurity

# Create the users dictionary with names and roles
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary. Each key is a user name string, and each value is their role string.

2

Define access levels for roles

Create a dictionary called access_levels with these exact entries: 'admin': 'full_access', 'editor': 'edit_access', 'viewer': 'read_only'.

Cybersecurity

users = {'alice': 'admin', 'bob': 'editor', 'carol': 'viewer', 'dave': 'editor'}
# Create the access_levels dictionary with roles and their access rights
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Map each role to its access right using a dictionary.

3

Assign permissions to users

Create a dictionary called permissions using dictionary comprehension that maps each user in users to their access right from access_levels based on their role.

Cybersecurity

users = {'alice': 'admin', 'bob': 'editor', 'carol': 'viewer', 'dave': 'editor'}
access_levels = {'admin': 'full_access', 'editor': 'edit_access', 'viewer': 'read_only'}
# Create permissions dictionary mapping users to access rights
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use dictionary comprehension with for user, role in users.items() to assign access rights.

4

Add policy version to permissions

Add a new key 'policy_version' with value "2024-01-01" to the permissions dictionary.

Cybersecurity

users = {'alice': 'admin', 'bob': 'editor', 'carol': 'viewer', 'dave': 'editor'}
access_levels = {'admin': 'full_access', 'editor': 'edit_access', 'viewer': 'read_only'}
permissions = {user: access_levels[role] for user, role in users.items()}
# Add the policy_version key to permissions
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the dictionary key assignment syntax to add the new key and value.