AWSSecurityIncidentResponseFullAccess

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Summary

Policy provides customers with Read and Write permissions to all resources associated to the Security Incident Response service.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityIncidentResponseFullAccess
Default version: v4
Created: 2024-12-01
Last edited: 2026-04-22
Services: iam, organizations, security-ir

Control-plane actions (36)

By access level: 9 List, 12 Read, 2 Tagging, 13 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
IAM	1 of 190	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole
Organizations	10 of 63	7 List, 3 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	organizations:DescribeAccount, organizations:DescribeOrganization, organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit, organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization, organizations:ListAccounts, organizations:ListAccountsForParent, organizations:ListChildren, organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators, organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent, organizations:ListRoots
Security Incident Response	All 25 actions (see the Security Incident Response page)	2 List, 9 Read, 2 Tagging, 12 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	security-ir:*

IAM: 1 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)

Organizations: 10 actions

organizations:DescribeAccount (Read)
organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)
organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit (Read)
organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization (List)
organizations:ListAccounts (List)
organizations:ListAccountsForParent (List)
organizations:ListChildren (List)
organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators (List)
organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent (List)
organizations:ListRoots (List)

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: mixed.

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

Why this tier

Grants at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: security-ir (12 of 12).

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": "SecurityIRFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "security-ir:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCreationOfServiceLinkedRoleForSecurityIncidentResponse",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/security-ir.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForSecurityIncidentResponse"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "security-ir.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCreationOfServiceLinkedRoleForSecurityIncidentResponseTriage",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/triage.security-ir.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForSecurityIncidentResponse_Triage"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "triage.security-ir.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationsPolicies",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2026-04-22. 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/AWSSecurityIncidentResponseFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityIncidentResponseFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityIncidentResponseFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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