Granting Temporary Access in Google Cloud

Google Cloud offers a solution to manage temporary access effectively by allowing the attachment of an IAM condition with an expiration time to a role binding. This approach enhances security by eliminating unnecessary permanent access to sensitive resources, ensuring engineers only have production access when required and simplifying access reviews. The process involves specifying the expiration through the Google Cloud Console or using the gcloud CLI or REST API to update IAM policies. However, there are limitations, such as the inability to use basic roles with IAM conditions and the persistence of bindings in IAM policies even after expiration, which can lead to clutter. To address these challenges, P0 Security streamlines temporary access management by automating the process via Slack, enabling easy requests and approvals, and ensuring expired accesses are removed to prevent clutter in IAM bindings.