AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy

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Summary

Grants the permissions required to run AWS Security Agent continuous scoped penetration tests from a CI/CD pipeline. Attached to a customer-created IAM role that a 3P CI/CD pipeline assumes via OIDC

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy
Default version: v1
Created: 2026-10-05
Last edited: 2026-10-05
Services: securityagent

Control-plane actions (6)

By access level: 2 List, 2 Read, 2 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
securityagent	6 of 119	2 List, 2 Read, 2 Write; 6 restricted, 0 conditional	securityagent:BatchGetFindings, securityagent:BatchGetPentestJobs, securityagent:ListFindings, securityagent:ListIntegratedResources, securityagent:StartPentestJob, securityagent:StopPentestJob

securityagent: 6 actions

securityagent:BatchGetFindings (Read)
securityagent:BatchGetPentestJobs (Read)
securityagent:ListFindings (List)
securityagent:ListIntegratedResources (List)
securityagent:StartPentestJob (Write)
securityagent:StopPentestJob (Write)

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: scoped.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants 2 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "SecurityAgentRunPentest",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "securityagent:StartPentestJob",
        "securityagent:BatchGetPentestJobs",
        "securityagent:StopPentestJob",
        "securityagent:ListFindings",
        "securityagent:BatchGetFindings",
        "securityagent:ListIntegratedResources"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:securityagent:*:*:agent-space/*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2026-10-05. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

AWS CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "awssecurityagentcontinuouspentestpolicy" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy"),
);

Sources

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