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Getting Credentials for Cross4Security

We request you to provide credentials so our Security product can perform scans on your AWS cloud environment. The images attached below will guide you. Please follow the instructions below.

  1. Go to AWS Console and log in to your account.

  2. After loged in to your account, go to the search bar and search for IAM.

  3. Click IAM under Services.

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AWS Step 2-3

1. User Creation​

  1. Click Users on the left and then click Create user.
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AWS Step 4

  1. Click Next button after entering a User name. Optionally you can provide user access to the AWS Management Console.
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AWS Step 5

2. Permission Assignment​

  1. In the opened screen, it is necessary to grant the user the required permissions. Therefore, click on the Attach Policies button. After this point, you have two options to proceed. The first option is to manually add the permissions listed below one by one. The second option is to select only the AdministratorAccess permission, granting full authorization.

    Manuel (Recommended)Full Access
    ReadOnlyAccessAdministratorAccess
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For more detailed information about the Policies and permissions you can check AWS Documentation.

  1. Click on the Next button at the bottom of the page.
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AWS Step 7

  1. After verifying the presence of the necessary permissions under the Permission Summary tab on the opened page, finally, click the Create User button.

After completing these steps, you should have successfully created the user with the specified permissions.

3. Key Creation​

  1. From the list of users, click on the user that you have created.
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AWS Step 9

  1. In the relevant user page, go to the Security Credentials tab and click Create access key under Access Keys section.
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AWS Step 10

  1. Choose a proper use case. In this case, we chose Commond Line Interface (CLI). Then click Next button.
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AWS Step 11

  1. You can add Description tag value, it's optional. After that, click Create access key.
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AWS Step 12

  1. CRITICAL STEP

    From the screen that opens, copy and paste your Access Key and Secret Access Key where you can access them later, you will need them in our console.

  2. When you are sure that the credentials are accessible, you can click the Done button.

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AWS Step 14

Critical Step

Please do not forget the setup your Cost Information Configuration.