Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
AWS Audit Manager provides a prebuilt framework that supports the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).
What is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)?
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA), also known as the Financial Service Modernization Act of 1999, is a federal law enacted in the United States to control the ways that financial institutions deal with the private information of individuals. The Act consists of three sections. The first is the Financial Privacy Rule, which regulates the collection and disclosure of private financial information. The second is the Safeguards Rule, which stipulates that financial institutions must implement security programs to protect such information. The third is the Pretexting provisions, which prohibit the practice of pretexting (accessing private information using false pretenses). The Act also requires financial institutions to give customers written privacy notices that explain their information-sharing practices.
Using this framework to support your audit preparation
You can use the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) framework to help you prepare for audits. This framework includes a prebuilt collection of controls with descriptions and testing procedures. These controls are grouped into control sets according to GLBA requirements. You can also customize this framework and its controls to support internal audits with specific requirements.
Using the GLBA framework as a starting point, you can create an Audit Manager assessment and start collecting evidence that’s relevant for a GLBA audit. In your assessment, you can specify the AWS accounts and services that you want to include in the scope of your audit. After you create an assessment, Audit Manager starts to assess your AWS resources. It does this based on the controls that are defined in the GLBA framework. When it's time for an audit, you—or a delegate of your choice—can review the evidence that Audit Manager collected. Either, you can browse the evidence folders in your assessment and choose which evidence you want to include in your assessment report. Or, if you enabled evidence finder, you can search for specific evidence and export it in CSV format, or create an assessment report from your search results. Either way, you can use this assessment report to show that your controls are working as intended.
The GLBA framework details are as follows:
| Framework name in AWS Audit Manager | Number of automated controls | Number of manual controls | Number of control sets | AWS services in scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) | 4 | 110 | 16 |
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To review the AWS Config rules that are used as data source mappings in this standard framework, download the AuditManager_ConfigDataSourceMappings_GLBA.zip file.
The controls in this AWS Audit Manager framework aren't intended to verify if your systems are compliant with the GLBA standard. Moreover, they can't guarantee that you'll pass a GLBA audit. AWS Audit Manager doesn't automatically check procedural controls that require manual evidence collection.
You can find the GLBA framework under the Standard frameworks tab of the Framework library in Audit Manager.
For instructions on how to create an assessment using this framework, see Creating an assessment.
When you use the Audit Manager console to create an assessment from this standard framework, the list of AWS services in scope is selected by default and can’t be edited. This is because Audit Manager automatically maps and selects the data sources and services for you. This selection is made according to the requirements of the GLBA. If you need to edit the list of services in scope for this framework, you can do so by using the CreateAssessment or UpdateAssessment API operations. Alternatively, you can customize the standard framework and then create an assessment from the custom framework.
For instructions on how to customize this framework to support your specific requirements, see Customizing an existing framework and Customizing an existing control.
