CIS AWS Benchmarks
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- 1.1 Maintain current contact details (Manual)
- 1.2 Ensure security contact information is registered (Manual)
- 1.3 Ensure no 'root' user account access key exists (Automated)
- 1.4 Ensure MFA is enabled for the 'root' user account (Automated)
- 1.5 Ensure hardware MFA is enabled for the 'root' user account (Manual)
- 1.6 Eliminate use of the 'root' user for administrative and daily tasks (Manual)
- 5.7 Ensure that the EC2 Metadata Service Only Allows IMDSv2 (Automated)
- 1.7 Ensure IAM password policy requires a minimum length of 14 or greater (Automated)
- 1.8 Ensure IAM password policy prevents password reuse (Automated)
- 1.9 Ensure multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all IAM users that have a console password (Automated)
- 1.10 Do not create access keys during initial setup for IAM users with a console password (Manual)
- 1.11 Ensure credentials unused for 45 days or more are disabled (Automated)
- 1.12 Ensure there is only one active access key for any single IAM user (Automated)
- 1.13 Ensure access keys are rotated every 90 days or less (Automated)
- 1.14 Ensure IAM users receive permissions only through groups (Automated)
- 1.15 Ensure IAM policies that allow full ":" administrative privileges are not attached (Automated)
- 1.16 Ensure a support role has been created to manage incidents with AWS Support (Automated)
- 1.17 Ensure IAM instance roles are used for AWS resource access from instances (Automated)
- 1.18 Ensure that all expired SSL/TLS certificates stored in AWS IAM are removed (Automated)
- 1.19 Ensure that IAM External Access Analyzer is enabled for all regions (Automated)
- 1.20 Ensure IAM users are managed centrally via identity federation or AWS Organizations for multi-account environments (Manual)
- 1.21 Ensure access to AWSCloudShellFullAccess is restricted (Manual)
- 2.1.1 Ensure S3 Bucket Policy is set to deny HTTP requests (Automated)
- 2.1.2 Ensure MFA Delete is enabled on S3 buckets (Manual)
- 2.1.3 Ensure all data in Amazon S3 has been discovered, classified, and secured when necessary (Manual)
- 2.1.4 Ensure that S3 is configured with 'Block Public Access' enabled (Automated)
- 2.2.1 Ensure that encryption-at-rest is enabled for RDS instances (Automated)
- 2.2.2 Ensure the Auto Minor Version Upgrade feature is enabled for RDS instances (Automated)
- 2.2.3 Ensure that RDS instances are not publicly accessible (Automated)
- 2.2.4 Ensure Multi-AZ deployments are used for enhanced availability in Amazon RDS (Manual)
- 2.3.1 Ensure that encryption is enabled for EFS file systems (Automated)
- 3.1 Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions (Manual)
- 3.2 Ensure CloudTrail log file validation is enabled (Automated)
- 3.3 Ensure AWS Config is enabled in all regions (Automated)
- 3.4 Ensure that server access logging is enabled on the CloudTrail S3 bucket (Manual)
- 3.5 Ensure CloudTrail logs are encrypted at rest using KMS CMKs (Automated)
- 3.6 Ensure rotation for customer-created symmetric CMKs is enabled (Automated)
- 3.7 Ensure VPC flow logging is enabled in all VPCs (Automated)
- 3.8 Ensure that object-level logging for write events is enabled for S3 buckets (Automated)
- 3.9 Ensure that object-level logging for read events is enabled for S3 buckets (Automated)
- 4.1 Ensure unauthorized API calls are monitored (Manual)
- 4.2 Ensure management console sign-in without MFA is monitored (Manual)
- 4.3 Ensure usage of the 'root' account is monitored (Manual)
- 4.4 Ensure IAM policy changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.5 Ensure CloudTrail configuration changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.6 Ensure AWS Management Console authentication failures are monitored (Manual)
- 4.7 Ensure disabling or scheduled deletion of customer-created CMKs is monitored (Manual)
- 4.8 Ensure S3 bucket policy changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.9 Ensure AWS Config configuration changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.10 Ensure security group changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.11 Ensure Network Access Control List (NACL) changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.12 Ensure changes to network gateways are monitored (Manual)
- 4.13 Ensure route table changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.14 Ensure VPC changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.15 Ensure AWS Organizations changes are monitored (Manual)
- 4.16 Ensure AWS Security Hub is enabled (Automated)
- 5.1.1 Ensure EBS volume encryption is enabled in all regions (Automated)
- 5.1.2 Ensure CIFS access is restricted to trusted networks to prevent unauthorized access (Automated)
- 5.2 Ensure no Network ACLs allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports (Automated)
- 5.3 Ensure no security groups allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports (Automated)
- 5.4 Ensure no security groups allow ingress from ::/0 to remote server administration ports (Automated)
- 5.5 Ensure the default security group of every VPC restricts all traffic (Automated)
- 5.6 Ensure routing tables for VPC peering are "least access" (Manual)