Policy best practices Allow minimum access to enable Audit Manager Allow administrator access Allow management access Allow read-only access Allow users to view their own permissions Allow AWS Audit Manager to send notifications to Amazon SNS topics Allow evidence finder query access

Identity-based policy examples for AWS Audit Manager

By default, users and roles don't have permission to create or modify Audit Manager resources. They also can't perform tasks by using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or AWS API. To grant users permission to perform actions on the resources that they need, an IAM administrator can create IAM policies. The administrator can then add the IAM policies to roles, and users can assume the roles.

To learn how to create an IAM identity-based policy by using these example JSON policy documents, see Creating IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.

For details about actions and resource types defined by AWS Audit Manager, including the format of the ARNs for each of the resource types, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Audit Manager in the Service Authorization Reference.

Policy best practices

Identity-based policies determine whether someone can create, access, or delete Audit Manager resources in your account. These actions can incur costs for your AWS account. When you create or edit identity-based policies, follow these guidelines and recommendations:

Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions – To get started granting permissions to your users and workloads, use the AWS managed policies that grant permissions for many common use cases. They are available in your AWS account. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining AWS customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases. For more information, see AWS managed policies or AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.
Apply least-privilege permissions – When you set permissions with IAM policies, grant only the permissions required to perform a task. You do this by defining the actions that can be taken on specific resources under specific conditions, also known as least-privilege permissions. For more information about using IAM to apply permissions, see Policies and permissions in IAM in the IAM User Guide.
Use conditions in IAM policies to further restrict access – You can add a condition to your policies to limit access to actions and resources. For example, you can write a policy condition to specify that all requests must be sent using SSL. You can also use conditions to grant access to service actions if they are used through a specific AWS service, such as AWS CloudFormation. For more information, see IAM JSON policy elements: Condition in the IAM User Guide.
Use IAM Access Analyzer to validate your IAM policies to ensure secure and functional permissions – IAM Access Analyzer validates new and existing policies so that the policies adhere to the IAM policy language (JSON) and IAM best practices. IAM Access Analyzer provides more than 100 policy checks and actionable recommendations to help you author secure and functional policies. For more information, see IAM Access Analyzer policy validation in the IAM User Guide.
Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) – If you have a scenario that requires IAM users or a root user in your AWS account, turn on MFA for additional security. To require MFA when API operations are called, add MFA conditions to your policies. For more information, see Configuring MFA-protected API access in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about best practices in IAM, see Security best practices in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

Allow the minimum permissions required to enable Audit Manager

This example shows how you might allow accounts without an administrator role to enable AWS Audit Manager.

Note

What we provide here is a basic policy that grants the minimum permissions needed to enable Audit Manager. All of the permissions in the following policy are required. If you omit any part of this policy, you won't be able to enable Audit Manager.

We recommend that you take time to customize your permissions so they meet your specific needs. If you need help, contact your administrator or AWS Support.

To grant the minimum access required to enable Audit Manager, use the following permissions.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "auditmanager:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": "auditmanager.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CreateEventsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "events:PutRule"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
                    "events:source": [
                        "aws.securityhub"
                   ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "EventsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "events:PutTargets"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:events:*:*:rule/AuditManagerSecurityHubFindingsReceiver"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "kms:ListAliases",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": "auditmanager.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

You don't need to allow minimum console permissions for users that are making calls only to the AWS CLI or the AWS API. Instead, allow access to only the actions that match the API operation that you're trying to perform.

Allow users full administrator access to AWS Audit Manager

The following example policies grant full administrator access to AWS Audit Manager.

Example 1 (Managed policy, AWSAuditManagerAdministratorAccess)
Example 2 (Assessment report destination permissions)
Example 3 (Export destination permissions)
Example 4 (Permissions to enable evidence finder)
Example 5 (Permissions to disable evidence finder)

Example 1 (Managed policy, `AWSAuditManagerAdministratorAccess`)

The AWSAuditManagerAdministratorAccess policy includes the ability to enable and disable Audit Manager, the ability to change Audit Manager settings, and the ability to manage all Audit Manager resources such as assessments, frameworks, controls, and assessment reports.

Example 2 (Assessment report destination permissions)

This policy grants you permission to access a specific S3 bucket, and to add files to and delete files from it. This allows you to use the specified bucket as an assessment report destination in Audit Manager.

Replace the placeholder text with your own information. Include the S3 bucket that you use as your assessment report destination and the KMS key that you use to encrypt your assessment reports.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
               "s3:PutObject",
               "s3:GetObject",
               "s3:ListBucket",
               "s3:DeleteObject",
               "s3:GetBucketLocation",
               "s3:PutObjectAcl"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-DESTINATION-BUCKET/*"
        }
    ]
},
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kms:Decrypt",
                "kms:Encrypt",
                "kms:GenerateDataKey"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab"
        }
    ]
}

Example 3 (Export destination permissions)

The following policy allows CloudTrail to deliver evidence finder query results to the specified S3 bucket. As a security best practice, the IAM global condition key aws:SourceArn helps ensure that CloudTrail writes to the S3 bucket only for the event data store.

Replace the placeholder text with your own information, as follows:

Replace DOC-EXAMPLE-DESTINATION-BUCKET with the S3 bucket that you use as your export destination.
Replace myQueryRunningRegion with the appropriate AWS Region for your configuration.
Replace myAccountID with the AWS account ID that's used for CloudTrail. This might not be the same as the AWS account ID for the S3 bucket. If this is an organization event data store, you must use the AWS account for the management account.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "cloudtrail.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject*",
                "s3:Abort*"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-DESTINATION-BUCKET",
                "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-DESTINATION-BUCKET/*"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "AWS:SourceArn": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:myQueryRunningRegion:myAccountID:eventdatastore/*"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "cloudtrail.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": "s3:GetBucketAcl",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC-EXAMPLE-DESTINATION-BUCKET",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "AWS:SourceArn": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:myQueryRunningRegion:myAccountID:eventdatastore/*"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "cloudtrail.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": [
                "kms:Decrypt*",
                "kms:GenerateDataKey*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "s3.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": [
                "kms:Decrypt*",
                "kms:GenerateDataKey*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Example 4 (Permissions to enable evidence finder)

The following permission policy is required if you want to enable and use the evidence finder feature. This policy statement allows Audit Manager to create a CloudTrail Lake event data store and run search queries.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
           "Sid": "ManageCloudTrailLakeQueryAccess",
           "Effect": "Allow",
           "Action": [
               "cloudtrail:StartQuery",
               "cloudtrail:DescribeQuery",
               "cloudtrail:GetQueryResults",
               "cloudtrail:CancelQuery"
           ],
           "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:eventdatastore/*"
        },
        {
           "Sid": "ManageCloudTrailLakeAccess",
           "Effect": "Allow",
           "Action": [
                "cloudtrail:CreateEventDataStore"
           ],
           "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:eventdatastore/*"
         }
    ]
}

Example 5 (Permissions to disable evidence finder)

This example policy grants permission to disable the evidence finder feature in Audit Manager. This involves deleting the event data store that was created when you first enabled the feature.

Before you use this policy, replace the placeholder text with your own information. You should specify the UUID of the event data store that was created when you enabled evidence finder. You can retrieve the ARN of the event data store from your Audit Manager settings. For more information, see GetSettings in the AWS Audit Manager API Reference.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
               "cloudtrail:DeleteEventDataStore",
               "cloudtrail:UpdateEventDataStore"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:::event-data-store-UUID"
        }
    ]
}

Allow users management access to AWS Audit Manager

This example shows how you might allow non-administrator management access to AWS Audit Manager.

This policy grants the ability to manage all Audit Manager resources (assessments, frameworks, and controls), but does not grant the ability to enable or disable Audit Manager or to modify Audit Manager settings.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AuditManagerAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "auditmanager:AssociateAssessmentReportEvidenceFolder",
                "auditmanager:BatchAssociateAssessmentReportEvidence",
                "auditmanager:BatchCreateDelegationByAssessment",
                "auditmanager:BatchDeleteDelegationByAssessment",
                "auditmanager:BatchDisassociateAssessmentReportEvidence",
                "auditmanager:BatchImportEvidenceToAssessmentControl",
                "auditmanager:CreateAssessment",
                "auditmanager:CreateAssessmentFramework",
                "auditmanager:CreateAssessmentReport",
                "auditmanager:CreateControl",
                "auditmanager:DeleteControl",
                "auditmanager:DeleteAssessment",
                "auditmanager:DeleteAssessmentFramework",
                "auditmanager:DeleteAssessmentFrameworkShare",
                "auditmanager:DeleteAssessmentReport",
                "auditmanager:DisassociateAssessmentReportEvidenceFolder",
                "auditmanager:GetAccountStatus",
                "auditmanager:GetAssessment",
                "auditmanager:GetAssessmentFramework",
                "auditmanager:GetControl",
                "auditmanager:GetServicesInScope",
                "auditmanager:GetSettings",
                "auditmanager:GetAssessmentReportUrl",
                "auditmanager:GetChangeLogs",
                "auditmanager:GetDelegations",
                "auditmanager:GetEvidence",
                "auditmanager:GetEvidenceByEvidenceFolder",
                "auditmanager:GetEvidenceFileUploadUrl",
                "auditmanager:GetEvidenceFolder",
                "auditmanager:GetEvidenceFoldersByAssessment",
                "auditmanager:GetEvidenceFoldersByAssessmentControl",
                "auditmanager:GetInsights",
                "auditmanager:GetInsightsByAssessment",
                "auditmanager:GetOrganizationAdminAccount",
                "auditmanager:ListAssessments",
                "auditmanager:ListAssessmentReports",
                "auditmanager:ListControls",
                "auditmanager:ListKeywordsForDataSource",
                "auditmanager:ListNotifications",
                "auditmanager:ListAssessmentControlInsightsByControlDomain",
                "auditmanager:ListAssessmentFrameworks",
                "auditmanager:ListAssessmentFrameworkShareRequests",
                "auditmanager:ListControlDomainInsights",
                "auditmanager:ListControlDomainInsightsByAssessment",
                "auditmanager:ListControlInsightsByControlDomain",
                "auditmanager:ListTagsForResource",
                "auditmanager:StartAssessmentFrameworkShare",
                "auditmanager:TagResource",
                "auditmanager:UntagResource",
                "auditmanager:UpdateControl",
                "auditmanager:UpdateAssessment",
                "auditmanager:UpdateAssessmentControl",
                "auditmanager:UpdateAssessmentControlSetStatus",
                "auditmanager:UpdateAssessmentFramework",
                "auditmanager:UpdateAssessmentFrameworkShare",
                "auditmanager:UpdateAssessmentStatus",
                "auditmanager:ValidateAssessmentReportIntegrity"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
    	"Sid": "ControlCatalogAccess",
    	"Effect": "Allow",
    	"Action": [
		"controlcatalog:ListCommonControls",
		"controlcatalog:ListDomains",
		"controlcatalog:ListObjectives"
    	],
    	"Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "OrganizationsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount",
                "organizations:ListParents",
                "organizations:ListChildren"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "IAMAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:GetUser",
                "iam:ListUsers",
                "iam:ListRoles"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "S3Access",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [        
                "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "KmsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kms:DescribeKey",
                "kms:ListKeys",
                "kms:ListAliases"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "SNSAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "sns:ListTopics"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "TagAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "tag:GetResources"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Allow users read-only access to AWS Audit Manager

This policy grants read-only access to AWS Audit Manager resources such as assessments, frameworks, and controls.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AuditManagerAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "auditmanager:Get*",
                "auditmanager:List*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Allow users to view their own permissions

This example shows how you might create a policy that allows IAM users to view the inline and managed policies that are attached to their user identity. This policy includes permissions to complete this action on the console or programmatically using the AWS CLI or AWS API.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ViewOwnUserInfo",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:GetUserPolicy",
                "iam:ListGroupsForUser",
                "iam:ListAttachedUserPolicies",
                "iam:ListUserPolicies",
                "iam:GetUser"
            ],
            "Resource": ["arn:aws:iam::*:user/${aws:username}"]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "NavigateInConsole",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:GetGroupPolicy",
                "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
                "iam:GetPolicy",
                "iam:ListAttachedGroupPolicies",
                "iam:ListGroupPolicies",
                "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
                "iam:ListPolicies",
                "iam:ListUsers"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

The policies in this example grant Audit Manager permissions to send notifications to an existing Amazon SNS topic.

Example 1 – If you want to receive notifications from Audit Manager, use this example to add permissions to your SNS topic access policy.
Example 2 – If your SNS topic uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for server-side encryption (SSE), use this example to add permissions to the KMS key access policy.

In the following policies, the principal who gets the permissions is the Audit Manager service principal, which is auditmanager.amazonaws.com. When the principal in a policy statement is an AWS service principal, we strongly recommend that you use the aws:SourceArn or aws:SourceAccount global condition keys in the policy. You can use these global condition context keys to help prevent the confused deputy scenario.

This policy statement allows Audit Manager to publish events to the specified SNS topic. Any request to publish to the specified SNS topic must satisfy the policy conditions.

Before using this policy, replace the placeholder text with your own information. Take note of the following:

If you use the aws:SourceArn condition key in this policy, the value must be the ARN of the Audit Manager resource that the notification comes from. In the example below, aws:SourceArn uses a wildcard (*) for the resource ID. This allows all requests that come from Audit Manager on all Audit Manager resources. With the aws:SourceArn global condition key, you can use either the StringLike or the ArnLike condition operator. As a best practice, we recommend that you use ArnLike.
If you use the aws:SourceAccount condition key, you can use either the StringEquals or the StringLike condition operator. As a best practice, we recommend that you use StringEquals to implement least privilege.
If you use both aws:SourceAccount and aws:SourceArn, the account values must show the same account ID.


{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": {
      "Sid": "AllowAuditManagerToUseSNSTopic",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "Service": "auditmanager.amazonaws.com"
      },
      "Action": "SNS:Publish",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:region:accountID:topicName",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:SourceAccount": "accountID"
        },
        "ArnLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:auditmanager:region:accountID:*"
        }
      }
    }
}

The following alternative example uses just the aws:SourceArn condition key, with the StringLike condition operator:


      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:auditmanager:region:accountID:*"
        }
      }

The following alternative example uses just the aws:SourceAccount condition key, with the StringLike condition operator:


   "Condition": {
     "StringLike": {
       "aws:SourceAccount": "accountID"
      }
    }

This policy statement allows Audit Manager to use the KMS key to generate the data key that it uses to encrypt an SNS topic. Any request to use the KMS key for the specified operation must satisfy the policy conditions.

Before using this policy, replace the placeholder text with your own information. Take note of the following:

If you use the aws:SourceArn condition key in this policy, the value must be the ARN of the resource that’s being encrypted. For example, in this case, it's the SNS topic in your account. Set the value to the ARN or an ARN pattern with wildcard characters (*). You can use either the StringLike or the ArnLike condition operator with the aws:SourceArn condition key. As a best practice, we recommend that you use ArnLike.
If you use the aws:SourceAccount condition key, you can use either the StringEquals or the StringLike condition operator. As a best practice, we recommend that you use StringEquals to implement least privilege. You can use aws:SourceAccount if you don't know the ARN of the SNS topic.
If you use both aws:SourceAccount and aws:SourceArn, the account values must show the same account ID.


{
     "Version": "2012-10-17",
     "Statement": {
       "Sid": "AllowAuditManagerToUseKMSKey",
       "Effect": "Allow",
       "Principal": {
           "Service": "auditmanager.amazonaws.com"
       },
       "Action": [
           "kms:Decrypt",
           "kms:GenerateDataKey"
       ],
       "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:region:accountID:key/*",
       "Condition": {
           "StringEquals": {
                "aws:SourceAccount": "accountID"
            }
            "ArnLike": {
                 "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:sns:region:accountID:topicName"
            }
      }
    }
  ]
}

The following alternative example uses just the aws:SourceArn condition key, with the StringLike condition operator:


      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:sns:region:accountID:topicName"
        }
      }

The following alternative example uses just the aws:SourceAccount condition key, with the StringLike condition operator:


   "Condition": {
     "StringLike": {
       "aws:SourceAccount": "accountID"
      }
    }

Allow users to run search queries in evidence finder

The following policy grants permissions to perform queries on a CloudTrail Lake event data store. This permission policy is required if you want to use the evidence finder feature.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ManageCloudTrailLakeQueryAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudtrail:StartQuery",
                "cloudtrail:DescribeQuery",
                "cloudtrail:GetQueryResults",
                "cloudtrail:CancelQuery"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

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