Insider Threat Matrix™Insider Threat Matrix™
  • ID: PR042.003
  • Created: 06th July 2026
  • Updated: 06th July 2026
  • Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • MITRE ATT&CK®: T1136.003T1136
  • Contributor: The ITM Team

Cloud User Account Creation

A subject creates a user account within a cloud identity provider, cloud tenant, or cloud infrastructure environment. Cloud accounts may provide access to cloud services, management consoles, storage resources, workloads, applications, identity permissions, and administrative functions.

 

Cloud user accounts may be created through cloud portals, identity provider administration consoles, application programming interfaces, command-line tools, infrastructure-as-code workflows, or automated provisioning processes. The account’s access may be shaped by assigned roles, groups, licenses, conditional access scope, application permissions, and tenant-level privileges.