Generosity Under Conditions: Hardening Google Cloud Access Management

Google Cloud IAM is being hardened to improve access control. The Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) is being enforced using predefined roles, custom roles, and IAM policies. This approach is insufficient when resources are shared between workloads or teams, so IAM conditions are being used to restrict access. Conditions can be used to constrain administrative privileges and scope access to specific resources. This improves security and reduces the risk of over-privileged users.