Reviewing a standard control - AWS Audit Manager
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Reviewing a standard control

You can review the details of a standard control by using the Audit Manager console, the Audit Manager API, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Prerequisites

Make sure your IAM identity has appropriate permissions to view controls in AWS Audit Manager. Two suggested policies that grant these permissions are AWSAuditManagerAdministratorAccess and Allow users management access to AWS Audit Manager.

Procedure

You can review the details of a standard control by using the Audit Manager console, the Audit Manager API, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Audit Manager console
To view standard control details on the Audit Manager console

  1. Open the AWS Audit Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/auditmanager/home.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Control library.

  3. Choose Standard to see the standard controls that are provided by AWS.

  4. Choose any standard control name to view the details for that control.

  5. Review the standard control details using the following information as reference.

Overview section

This section describes the standard control and lists the data source types that it uses to collect evidence.

Evidence sources tab

This tab includes the following information:

Name Description

Core controls

 These are the core controls that collect evidence to support the standard control.

Each core control uses a predefined grouping of data sources to collect evidence about an AWS service. These data sources are managed for you by AWS, and are automatically updated whenever regulations and standards change and new data sources are identified. Choose any core control to see the underlying data sources.

Data sources

These are the other AWS managed data sources that collect evidence to support the standard control.

  • Mapping – The specific keyword that's used to collect evidence.

    • If the type is AWS Config, the mapping is an AWS Config rule (such as SNS_ENCRYPTED_KMS).

    • If the type is AWS Security Hub, the mapping is a Security Hub control (such as EC2.1).

    • If the type is AWS API calls, the mapping is an API call (such as kms_ListKeys).

    • If the type is AWS CloudTrail, the mapping is a CloudTrail event (such as CreateAccessKey).

  • Type – The type of data source that the evidence comes from.

    • If Audit Manager collects the evidence, the type can be AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, or AWS API calls.

    • If you upload your own evidence, the type is Manual. A description indicates if the required manual evidence is a File upload or a Text response.

  • Frequency – How often Audit Manager collects evidence for an AWS API call data source.
Details tab

This tab includes the following information:

Name Description

Instructions

The directions that describe how to test and remediate the control.

Testing information

The recommended testing procedures.
Action plan

The recommended actions to take if you need to remediate the control.

Tags

The tags that are associated with the control.
Key

The tag key (for example, a compliance standard, regulation, or category).
Value

The tag value.
AWS CLI
To view standard control details in the AWS CLI

  1. Follow the steps to find a control. Make sure to set the --control-type as Standard, and apply any optional filters as needed.

    aws auditmanager list-controls --control-type Standard

  2. In the response, identify the control that you want to review and take note of the control ID and Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

  3. Run the get-control command and specify the --control-id. In the following example, replace the placeholder text with your own information.

    aws auditmanager get-control --control-id a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111
    Tip

    The control details are returned in JSON format. To help you understand this data, see get-control Output in the AWS CLI Command Reference

  4. To see tag details, run the list-tags-for-resource command and specify the --resource-arn. In the following example, replace the placeholder text with your own information.

    aws auditmanager list-tags-for-resource --resource-arn arn:aws:auditmanager:us-east-1:111122223333:control/a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111
Audit Manager API
To view standard control details using the API

  1. Follow the steps to find a control. Make sure to set the controlType as Standard, and apply any optional filters as needed.

  2. In the response, identify the control that you want to review and take note of the control ID and Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

  3. Use the GetControl operation and specify the controlId that you noted in step 2.

    Tip

    The control details are returned in JSON format. To help you understand this data, see GetControl Response Elements in the AWS Audit Manager API Reference.

  4. To see tag details, use the ListTagsForResource operation and specify the resourceArn that you noted in step 2.

For more information about these API operations, choose any of the links in this procedure to read more in the AWS Audit Manager API Reference. This includes information about how to use these operations and parameters in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs.

Next steps

You can add a standard control to any of your custom frameworks. For instructions, see Creating a custom framework in AWS Audit Manager.

You can also customize any standard control so that it meets your needs. For instructions, see Making an editable copy of a control in AWS Audit Manager.

Additional resources