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AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy - AWS Managed Policy

AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy

Description: 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

AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

  • Type: AWS managed policy

  • Creation time: October 05, 2026, 16:27 UTC

  • Edited time: October 05, 2026, 16:27 UTC

  • ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSecurityAgentContinuousPentestPolicy

Policy version

Policy version: v1 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{ "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/*" } ] }

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