CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations L1 2.0.0

Audit Details

Name: CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations L1 2.0.0

Updated: 11/28/2023

Authority: CIS

Plugin: amazon_aws

Revision: 1.0

Estimated Item Count: 47

File Details

Filename: CIS_Amazon_Web_Services_Foundations_v2.0.0_L1.audit

Size: 175 kB

MD5: 3f801ef69ccf1513e6ad000ff776a607
SHA256: 3734ee6989b79e8daa3ad088df81bb52714d57950c5687a36b39d68d5c99bd3e

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
1.1 Maintain current contact details

INCIDENT RESPONSE

1.2 Ensure security contact information is registered

CONTINGENCY PLANNING, INCIDENT RESPONSE

1.3 Ensure security questions are registered in the AWS account

INCIDENT RESPONSE

1.4 Ensure no 'root' user account access key exists - 'Access Key 1'

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

1.4 Ensure no 'root' user account access key exists - 'Access Key 2'

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

1.5 Ensure MFA is enabled for the 'root' user account

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

1.7 Eliminate use of the 'root' user for administrative and daily tasks

ACCESS CONTROL

1.8 Ensure IAM password policy requires minimum length of 14 or greater

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

1.9 Ensure IAM password policy prevents password reuse

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

1.10 Ensure multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all IAM users that have a console password

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

1.11 Do not setup access keys during initial user setup for all IAM users that have a console password

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

1.12 Ensure credentials unused for 45 days or greater are disabled

ACCESS CONTROL

1.13 Ensure there is only one active access key available for any single IAM user

ACCESS CONTROL

1.14 Ensure access keys are rotated every 90 days or less

ACCESS CONTROL

1.15 Ensure IAM Users Receive Permissions Only Through Groups

ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

1.16 Ensure IAM policies that allow full '*:*' administrative privileges are not attached

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

1.17 Ensure a support role has been created to manage incidents with AWS Support

INCIDENT RESPONSE

1.19 Ensure that all the expired SSL/TLS certificates stored in AWS IAM are removed

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

1.20 Ensure that IAM Access analyzer is enabled for all regions

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

1.22 Ensure access to AWSCloudShellFullAccess is restricted

ACCESS CONTROL

2.1.4 Ensure that S3 Buckets are configured with 'Block public access (bucket settings)'

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

2.2.1 Ensure EBS Volume Encryption is Enabled in all Regions

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

2.3.1 Ensure that encryption-at-rest is enabled for RDS Instances

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

2.3.2 Ensure Auto Minor Version Upgrade feature is Enabled for RDS Instances

RISK ASSESSMENT, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

2.3.3 Ensure that public access is not given to RDS Instance

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

2.4.1 Ensure that encryption is enabled for EFS file systems

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

3.1 Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions - IncludeManagementEvents

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.1 Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions - IsLogging

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.1 Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions - IsMultiRegionTrail

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.1 Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions - ReadWriteType

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.3 Ensure the S3 bucket used to store CloudTrail logs is not publicly accessible

ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

3.4 Ensure CloudTrail trails are integrated with CloudWatch Logs - 'CloudWatch Log Delivery'

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.4 Ensure CloudTrail trails are integrated with CloudWatch Logs - 'log group is configured'

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

3.6 Ensure S3 bucket access logging is enabled on the CloudTrail S3 bucket

ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.2 Ensure management console sign-in without MFA is monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.3 Ensure usage of 'root' account is monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.4 Ensure IAM policy changes are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.5 Ensure CloudTrail configuration changes are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.8 Ensure S3 bucket policy changes are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.12 Ensure changes to network gateways are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.13 Ensure route table changes are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.14 Ensure VPC changes are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

4.15 Ensure AWS Organizations changes are monitored

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

5.1 Ensure no Network ACLs allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

5.2 Ensure no security groups allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

5.3 Ensure no security groups allow ingress from ::/0 to remote server administration ports

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

5.6 Ensure that EC2 Metadata Service only allows IMDSv2

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT