Operational Best Practices for CISA Cyber Essentials

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The following provides a sample mapping between the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Cyber Essentials (CE) and AWS managed Config rules. Each AWS Config rule applies to a specific AWS resource, and relates to one or more CISA CE controls. A CISA CE control can be related to multiple AWS Config rules. Refer to the table below for more detail and guidance related to these mappings.

Control ID	Control Description	AWS Config Rule	Guidance
Your Staff-1	Develop a culture of awareness to encourage employees to make good choices online.	security-awareness-program-exists(Process Check)	Establish and maintain a security awareness program for your organization. Security awareness programs educate employees on how to protect their organization from various security breaches or incidents.
Your Staff-2	Learn about risks like phishing and business email compromise.XXXXX.	security-awareness-program-exists(Process Check)	Establish and maintain a security awareness program for your organization. Security awareness programs educate employees on how to protect their organization from various security breaches or incidents.
Your Staff-3	Maintain awareness of current events related to cybersecurity, using lessons-learned and reported events to remain vigilant against the current threat environment and agile to cybersecurity trends.	security-awareness-program-exists(Process Check)	Establish and maintain a security awareness program for your organization. Security awareness programs educate employees on how to protect their organization from various security breaches or incidents.
Your Staff-4	Leverage basic cybersecurity training to improve exposure to cybersecurity concepts, terminology and activities associated with implementing cybersecurity best practices.	security-awareness-program-exists(Process Check)	Establish and maintain a security awareness program for your organization. Security awareness programs educate employees on how to protect their organization from various security breaches or incidents.
Your Staff-5	Identify available training resources through professional associations, academic institutions, private sector and government sources.	security-awareness-program-exists(Process Check)	Establish and maintain a security awareness program for your organization. Security awareness programs educate employees on how to protect their organization from various security breaches or incidents.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	eip-attached	This rule ensures Elastic IPs allocated to a Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) are attached to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or in-use Elastic Network Interfaces. This rule helps monitor unused EIPs in your environment.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	vpc-network-acl-unused-check	This rule ensures that Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network access control lists are in use. Monitoring for unused network access control lists can assist in accurate inventory and management of your environment.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	ec2-instance-managed-by-systems-manager	An inventory of the software platforms and applications within the organization is possible by managing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with AWS Systems Manager. Use AWS Systems Manager to provide detailed system configurations, operating system patch levels, services name and type, software installations, application name, publisher and version, and other details about your environment.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	ec2-managedinstance-association-compliance-status-check	Use AWS Systems Manager Associations to help with inventory of software platforms and applications within an organization. AWS Systems Manager assigns a configuration state to your managed instances and allows you to set baselines of operating system patch levels, software installations, application configurations, and other details about your environment.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	ec2-managedinstance-patch-compliance-status-check	Enable this rule to help with identification and documentation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) vulnerabilities. The rule checks if Amazon EC2 instance patch compliance in AWS Systems Manager as required by your organization's policies and procedures.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	ec2-stopped-instance	Enable this rule to help with the baseline configuration of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by checking whether Amazon EC2 instances have been stopped for more than the allowed number of days, according to your organization's standards.
Your Systems-1	Learn what is on your network. Maintain inventories of hardware and software assets to know what is in play and at-risk from attack.	ec2-volume-inuse-check	This rule ensures that Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes that are attached to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances are marked for deletion when an instance is terminated. If an Amazon EBS volume isn't deleted when the instance that it's attached to is terminated, it may violate the concept of least functionality.
Your Systems-2	Leverage automatic updates for all operating systems and third-party software.	ec2-managedinstance-patch-compliance-status-check	Enable this rule to help with identification and documentation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) vulnerabilities. The rule checks if Amazon EC2 instance patch compliance in AWS Systems Manager as required by your organization's policies and procedures.
Your Systems-2	Leverage automatic updates for all operating systems and third-party software.	elastic-beanstalk-managed-updates-enabled	Enabling managed platform updates for an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment ensures that the latest available platform fixes, updates, and features for the environment are installed. Keeping up to date with patch installation is a best practice in securing systems.
Your Systems-2	Leverage automatic updates for all operating systems and third-party software.	redshift-cluster-maintenancesettings-check	This rule ensures that Amazon Redshift clusters have the preferred settings for your organization. Specifically, that they have preferred maintenance windows and automated snapshot retention periods for the database. This rule requires you to set the allowVersionUpgrade. The default is true. It also lets you optionally set the preferredMaintenanceWindow (the default is sat:16:00-sat:16:30), and the automatedSnapshotRetentionPeriod (the default is 1). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-2	Leverage automatic updates for all operating systems and third-party software.	rds-automatic-minor-version-upgrade-enabled	Enable automatic minor version upgrades on your Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances to ensure the latest minor version updates to the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) are installed, which may include security patches and bug fixes.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	access-keys-rotated	The credentials are audited for authorized devices, users, and processes by ensuring IAM access keys are rotated as per organizational policy. Changing the access keys on a regular schedule is a security best practice. It shortens the period an access key is active and reduces the business impact if the keys are compromised. This rule requires an access key rotation value (Config Default: 90). The actual value should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	alb-http-to-https-redirection-check	To help protect data in transit, ensure that your Application Load Balancer automatically redirects unencrypted HTTP requests to HTTPS. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	alb-waf-enabled	Ensure AWS WAF is enabled on Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to help protect web applications. A WAF helps to protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits. These web exploits may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources within your environment.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	api-gw-associated-with-waf	AWS WAF enables you to configure a set of rules (called a web access control list (web ACL)) that allow, block, or count web requests based on customizable web security rules and conditions that you define. Ensure your Amazon API Gateway stage is associated with a WAF Web ACL to protect it from malicious attacks
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	cloud-trail-log-file-validation-enabled	Utilize AWS CloudTrail log file validation to check the integrity of CloudTrail logs. Log file validation helps determine if a log file was modified or deleted or unchanged after CloudTrail delivered it. This feature is built using industry standard algorithms: SHA-256 for hashing and SHA-256 with RSA for digital signing. This makes it computationally infeasible to modify, delete or forge CloudTrail log files without detection.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	codebuild-project-envvar-awscred-check	Ensure authentication credentials AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY do not exist within AWS Codebuild project environments. Do not store these variables in clear text. Storing these variables in clear text leads to unintended data exposure and unauthorized access.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	codebuild-project-source-repo-url-check	Ensure the GitHub or Bitbucket source repository URL does not contain personal access tokens, sign-in credentials within AWS Codebuild project environments. Use OAuth instead of personal access tokens or sign-in credentials to grant authorization for accessing GitHub or Bitbucket repositories.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elasticsearch-logs-to-cloudwatch	Ensure Amazon OpenSearch Service domains have error logs enabled and streamed to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for retention and response. Domain error logs can assist with security and access audits, and can help to diagnose availability issues.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	opensearch-logs-to-cloudwatch	Ensure Amazon OpenSearch Service domains have error logs enabled and streamed to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for retention and response. OpenSearch Service error logs can assist with security and access audits, and can help to diagnose availability issues.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elbv2-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-policy-no-statements-with-full-access	Ensure IAM Actions are restricted to only those actions that are needed. Allowing users to have more privileges than needed to complete a task may violate the principle of least privilege and separation of duties.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	no-unrestricted-route-to-igw	Ensure Amazon EC2 route tables do not have unrestricted routes to an internet gateway. Removing or limiting the access to the internet for workloads within Amazon VPCs can reduce unintended access within your environment.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-account-level-public-access-blocks-periodic	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets cannot be publicly accessed. This rule helps keeping sensitive data safe from unauthorized remote users by preventing public access. This rule allows you to optionally set the ignorePublicAcls (Config Default: True), blockPublicPolicy (Config Default: True), blockPublicAcls (Config Default: True), and restrictPublicBuckets parameters (Config Default: True). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ssm-document-not-public	Ensure AWS Systems Manager (SSM) documents are not public, as this may allow unintended access to your SSM documents. A public SSM document can expose information about your account, resources and internal processes.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	api-gw-cache-enabled-and-encrypted	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your API Gateway stage's cache. Because sensitive data can be captured for the API method, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	api-gw-execution-logging-enabled	API Gateway logging displays detailed views of users who accessed the API and the way they accessed the API. This insight enables visibility of user activities.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	api-gw-ssl-enabled	Ensure Amazon API Gateway REST API stages are configured with SSL certificates to allow backend systems to authenticate that requests originate from API Gateway.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	cloudtrail-s3-dataevents-enabled	The collection of Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data events helps in detecting any anomalous activity. The details include AWS account information that accessed an Amazon S3 bucket, IP address, and time of event.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	cloudtrail-security-trail-enabled	This rule helps ensure the use of AWS recommended security best practices for AWS CloudTrail, by checking for the enablement of multiple settings. These include the use of log encryption, log validation, and enabling AWS CloudTrail in multiple regions.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	cloudwatch-log-group-encrypted	To help protect sensitive data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	cmk-backing-key-rotation-enabled	Enable key rotation to ensure that keys are rotated once they have reached the end of their crypto period.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	db-instance-backup-enabled	The backup feature of Amazon RDS creates backups of your databases and transaction logs. Amazon RDS automatically creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance. The system allows you to set specific retention periods to meet your resilience requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	dms-replication-not-public	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring DMS replication instances cannot be publicly accessed. DMS replication instances can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	dynamodb-autoscaling-enabled	Amazon DynamoDB auto scaling uses the AWS Application Auto Scaling service to adjust provisioned throughput capacity that automatically responds to actual traffic patterns. This enables a table or a global secondary index to increase its provisioned read/write capacity to handle sudden increases in traffic, without throttling.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	dynamodb-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon DynamoDB tables are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	dynamodb-pitr-enabled	Enable this rule to check that information has been backed up. It also maintains the backups by ensuring that point-in-time recovery is enabled in Amazon DynamoDB. The recovery maintains continuous backups of your table for the last 35 days.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	dynamodb-table-encrypted-kms	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon DynamoDB tables. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in these tables, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data. By default, DynamoDB tables are encrypted with an AWS owned customer master key (CMK).
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ebs-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ebs-optimized-instance	An optimized instance in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides additional, dedicated capacity for Amazon EBS I/O operations. This optimization provides the most efficient performance for your EBS volumes by minimizing contention between Amazon EBS I/O operations and other traffic from your instance.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ebs-snapshot-public-restorable-check	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring EBS snapshots are not publicly restorable. EBS volume snapshots can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ec2-ebs-encryption-by-default	To help protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in these volumes, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ec2-instance-no-public-ip	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances cannot be publicly accessed. Amazon EC2 instances can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	efs-encrypted-check	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	efs-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elasticsearch-encrypted-at-rest	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) domains.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elasticsearch-in-vpc-only	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) Domains are within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). An OpenSearch Service domain within an Amazon VPC enables secure communication between OpenSearch Service and other services within the Amazon VPC without the need for an internet gateway, NAT device, or VPN connection.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	opensearch-node-to-node-encryption-check	Ensure node-to-node encryption for Amazon OpenSearch Service is enabled. Node-to-node encryption enables TLS 1.2 encryption for all communications within the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elb-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	opensearch-data-node-fault-tolerance	Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) requires at least three data nodes for high availability and fault-tolerance. Deploying an OpenSearch Service domain with at least three data nodes ensures cluster operations if a node fails.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elbv2-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elb-cross-zone-load-balancing-enabled	Enable cross-zone load balancing for your Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) to help maintain adequate capacity and availability. The cross-zone load balancing reduces the need to maintain equivalent numbers of instances in each enabled availability zone. It also improves your application's ability to handle the loss of one or more instances.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elb-deletion-protection-enabled	This rule ensures that Elastic Load Balancing has deletion protection enabled. Use this feature to prevent your load balancer from being accidentally or maliciously deleted, which can lead to loss of availability for your applications.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elb-logging-enabled	Elastic Load Balancing activity is a central point of communication within an environment. Ensure ELB logging is enabled. The collected data provides detailed information about requests sent to the ELB. Each log contains information such as the time the request was received, the client's IP address, latencies, request paths, and server responses.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	elb-tls-https-listeners-only	Ensure that your Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) are configured with SSL or HTTPS listeners. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	emr-master-no-public-ip	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon EMR cluster master nodes cannot be publicly accessed. Amazon EMR cluster master nodes can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	encrypted-volumes	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	guardduty-enabled-centralized	Amazon GuardDuty can help to monitor and detect potential cybersecurity events by using threat intelligence feeds. These include lists of malicious IPs and machine learning to identify unexpected, unauthorized, and malicious activity within your AWS Cloud environment.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-inline-policy-blocked-kms-actions	Ensure an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, IAM role or IAM group does not have an inline policy to allow blocked actions on all AWS Key Management Service keys. AWS recommends to use managed policies instead of inline policies. The managed policies allow reusability, versioning, rolling back, and delegating permissions management. This rule allows you to set the blockedActionsPatterns parameter. (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: kms:Decrypt, kms:ReEncryptFrom). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-no-inline-policy-check	Ensure an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, IAM role or IAM group does not have an inline policy to control access to systems and assets. AWS recommends to use managed policies instead of inline policies. The managed policies allow reusability, versioning and rolling back, and delegating permissions management.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-password-policy	The identities and the credentials are issued, managed, and verified based on an organizational IAM password policy. They meet or exceed requirements as stated by NIST SP 800-63 and the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard for password strength. This rule allows you to optionally set RequireUppercaseCharacters (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), RequireLowercaseCharacters (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), RequireSymbols (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), RequireNumbers (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), MinimumPasswordLength (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 14), PasswordReusePrevention (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 24), and MaxPasswordAge (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 90) for your IAM Password Policy. The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-policy-no-statements-with-admin-access	AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) can help you incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties with access permissions and authorizations, restricting policies from containing "Effect": "Allow" with "Action": "*" over "Resource": "*". Allowing users to have more privileges than needed to complete a task may violate the principle of least privilege and separation of duties.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-root-access-key-check	Access to systems and assets can be controlled by checking that the root user does not have access keys attached to their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Ensure that the root access keys are deleted. Instead, create and use role-based AWS accounts to help to incorporate the principle of least functionality.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-user-mfa-enabled	Enable this rule to restrict access to resources in the AWS Cloud. This rule ensures multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all users. MFA adds an extra layer of protection on top of sign-in credentials. Reduce the incidents of compromised accounts by requiring MFA for users.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-user-no-policies-check	This rule ensures AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies are attached only to groups or roles to control access to systems and assets. Assigning privileges at the group or the role level helps to reduce opportunity for an identity to receive or retain excessive privileges.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	iam-user-unused-credentials-check	AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) can help you with access permissions and authorizations by checking for IAM passwords and access keys that are not used for a specified time period. If these unused credentials are identified, you should disable and/or remove the credentials, as this may violate the principle of least privilege. This rule requires you to set a value to the maxCredentialUsageAge (Config Default: 90). The actual value should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ec2-instances-in-vpc	Deploy Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to enable secure communication between an instance and other services within the amazon VPC, without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, or VPN connection. All traffic remains securely within the AWS Cloud. Because of their logical isolation, domains that reside within an Amazon VPC have an extra layer of security when compared to domains that use public endpoints. Assign Amazon EC2 instances to an Amazon VPC to properly manage access.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	kms-cmk-not-scheduled-for-deletion	To help protect data at rest, ensure necessary customer master keys (CMKs) are not scheduled for deletion in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Because key deletion is necessary at times, this rule can assist in checking for all keys scheduled for deletion, in case a key was scheduled unintentionally.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	lambda-function-public-access-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring AWS Lambda functions cannot be publicly accessed. Public access can potentially lead to degradation of availability of resources.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	lambda-inside-vpc	Deploy AWS Lambda functions within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for a secure communication between a function and other services within the Amazon VPC. With this configuration, there is no requirement for an internet gateway, NAT device, or VPN connection. All the traffic remains securely within the AWS Cloud. Because of their logical isolation, domains that reside within an Amazon VPC have an extra layer of security when compared to domains that use public endpoints. To properly manage access, AWS Lambda functions should be assigned to a VPC.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	mfa-enabled-for-iam-console-access	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that MFA is enabled for all AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users that have a console password. MFA adds an extra layer of protection on top of sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for users, you can reduce incidents of compromised accounts and keep sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	multi-region-cloudtrail-enabled	AWS CloudTrail records AWS Management Console actions and API calls. You can identify which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from where the calls were made, and when the calls occurred. CloudTrail will deliver log files from all AWS Regions to your S3 bucket if MULTI_REGION_CLOUD_TRAIL_ENABLED is enabled. Additionally, when AWS launches a new Region, CloudTrail will create the same trail in the new Region. As a result, you will receive log files containing API activity for the new Region without taking any action.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-enhanced-monitoring-enabled	Enable Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to help monitor Amazon RDS availability. This provides detailed visibility into the health of your Amazon RDS database instances. When the Amazon RDS storage is using more than one underlying physical device, Enhanced Monitoring collects the data for each device. Also, when the Amazon RDS database instance is running in a Multi-AZ deployment, the data for each device on the secondary host is collected, and the secondary host metrics.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-instance-deletion-protection-enabled	Ensure Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances have deletion protection enabled. Use deletion protection to prevent your Amazon RDS instances from being accidentally or maliciously deleted, which can lead to loss of availability for your applications.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-instance-public-access-check	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are not public. Amazon RDS database instances can contain sensitive information, and principles and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-logging-enabled	To help with logging and monitoring within your environment, ensure Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) logging is enabled. With Amazon RDS logging, you can capture events such as connections, disconnections, queries, or tables queried.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-multi-az-support	Multi-AZ support in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides enhanced availability and durability for database instances. When you provision a Multi-AZ database instance, Amazon RDS automatically creates a primary database instance, and synchronously replicates the data to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone. Each Availability Zone runs on its own physically distinct, independent infrastructure, and is engineered to be highly reliable. In case of an infrastructure failure, Amazon RDS performs an automatic failover to the standby so that you can resume database operations as soon as the failover is complete.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-snapshot-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) snapshots. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-snapshots-public-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are not public. Amazon RDS database instances can contain sensitive information and principles and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	rds-storage-encrypted	To help protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Amazon RDS instances, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	redshift-backup-enabled	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Redshift clusters have automated snapshots. When automated snapshots are enabled for a cluster, Redshift periodically takes snapshots of that cluster. By default, Redshift takes a snapshot every eight hours or every 5 GB per node of data changes, or whichever comes first.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	redshift-cluster-configuration-check	To protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Redshift clusters. You must also ensure that required configurations are deployed on Amazon Redshift clusters. The audit logging should be enabled to provide information about connections and user activities in the database. This rule requires that a value is set for clusterDbEncrypted (Config Default : TRUE), and loggingEnabled (Config Default: TRUE). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	redshift-cluster-kms-enabled	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your Amazon Redshift cluster. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Redshift clusters, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	redshift-cluster-public-access-check	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Redshift clusters are not public. Amazon Redshift clusters can contain sensitive information and principles and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	redshift-require-tls-ssl	Ensure that your Amazon Redshift clusters require TLS/SSL encryption to connect to SQL clients. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	restricted-common-ports	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring common ports are restricted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security groups. Not restricting access to ports to trusted sources can lead to attacks against the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems. This rule allows you to optionally set blockedPort1 - blockedPort5 parameters (Config Defaults: 20,21,3389,3306,4333). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	restricted-ssh	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Security Groups can help manage network access by providing stateful filtering of ingress and egress network traffic to AWS resources. Not allowing ingress (or remote) traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 to port 22 on your resources help you restricting remote access.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	root-account-hardware-mfa-enabled	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring hardware MFA is enabled for the root user. The root user is the most privileged user in an AWS account. The MFA adds an extra layer of protection for sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for the root user, you can reduce the incidents of compromised AWS accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	root-account-mfa-enabled	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring MFA is enabled for the root user. The root user is the most privileged user in an AWS account. The MFA adds an extra layer of protection for sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for the root user, you can reduce the incidents of compromised AWS accounts.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-level-public-access-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets cannot be publicly accessed. This rule helps keeping sensitive data safe from unauthorized remote users by preventing public access at the bucket level.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-logging-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) server access logging provides a method to monitor the network for potential cybersecurity events. The events are monitored by capturing detailed records for the requests that are made to an Amazon S3 bucket. Each access log record provides details about a single access request. The details include the requester, bucket name, request time, request action, response status, and an error code, if relevant.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-public-read-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by only allowing authorized users, processes, and devices access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The management of access should be consistent with the classification of the data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-public-write-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by only allowing authorized users, processes, and devices access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The management of access should be consistent with the classification of the data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-replication-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Cross-Region Replication (CRR) supports maintaining adequate capacity and availability. CRR enables automatic, asynchronous copying of objects across Amazon S3 buckets to help ensure that data availability is maintained.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Amazon S3 buckets, enable encryption to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-ssl-requests-only	To help protect data in transit, ensure that your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets require requests to use Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-bucket-versioning-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket versioning helps keep multiple variants of an object in the same Amazon S3 bucket. Use versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your Amazon S3 bucket. Versioning helps you to easily recover from unintended user actions and application failures.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	s3-default-encryption-kms	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in an Amazon S3 bucket, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	sagemaker-endpoint-configuration-kms-key-configured	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your SageMaker endpoint. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in SageMaker endpoint, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	sagemaker-notebook-instance-kms-key-configured	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your SageMaker notebook. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in SageMaker notebook, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	sagemaker-notebook-no-direct-internet-access	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon SageMaker notebooks do not allow direct internet access. By preventing direct internet access, you can keep sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	secretsmanager-rotation-enabled-check	This rule ensures AWS Secrets Manager secrets have rotation enabled. Rotating secrets on a regular schedule can shorten the period a secret is active, and potentially reduce the business impact if the secret is compromised.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	secretsmanager-secret-periodic-rotation	This rule ensures AWS Secrets Manager secrets have periodic rotation enabled. Rotating secrets on a regular schedule can shorten the period a secret is active, and potentially reduce the business impact if the secret is compromised. The default value is 90 days.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	secretsmanager-secret-unused	If unused credentials exist in AWS Secrets Manager, you should disable and/or remove the credentials, as this may violate the principle of least privilege. This rule allows you to set a value to the unusedForDays (Config Default: 90). The actual value should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	securityhub-enabled	AWS Security Hub helps to monitor unauthorized personnel, connections, devices, and software. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes the security alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS services. Some such services are Amazon Security Hub, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Partner solutions.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	sns-encrypted-kms	To help protect data at rest, ensure that your Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics require encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Because sensitive data can exist at rest in published messages, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	subnet-auto-assign-public-ip-disabled	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets are not automatically assigned a public IP address. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that are launched into subnets that have this attribute enabled have a public IP address assigned to their primary network interface.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	vpc-default-security-group-closed	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security groups can help in the management of network access by providing stateful filtering of ingress and egress network traffic to AWS resources. Restricting all the traffic on the default security group helps in restricting remote access to your AWS resources.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	vpc-sg-open-only-to-authorized-ports	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring common ports are restricted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Security Groups. Not restricting access on ports to trusted sources can lead to attacks against the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems. By restricting access to resources within a security group from the internet (0.0.0.0/0) remote access can be controlled to internal systems.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	wafv2-logging-enabled	To help with logging and monitoring within your environment, enable AWS WAF (V2) logging on regional and global web ACLs. AWS WAF logging provides detailed information about the traffic that is analyzed by your web ACL. The logs record the time that AWS WAF received the request from your AWS resource, information about the request, and an action for the rule that each request matched.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ecs-task-definition-user-for-host-mode-check	If a task definition has elevated privileges it is because the customer has specifically opted-in to those configurations. This control checks for unexpected privilege escalation when a task definition has host networking enabled but the customer has not opted-in to elevated privileges.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	autoscaling-launch-config-public-ip-disabled	If you configure your Network Interfaces with a public IP address, then the associated resources to those Network Interfaces are reachable from the internet. EC2 resources should not be publicly accessible, as this may allow unintended access to your applications or servers.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	aurora-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Aurora resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	backup-recovery-point-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your AWS Backup recovery points. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	backup-recovery-point-manual-deletion-disabled	Ensure that your AWS Backup recovery points have an attached resource-based policy which prevents deletion of recovery points. Using a resource-based policy to prevent deletion of recovery points can assist in preventing accidental or intentional deletion.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	dynamodb-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon DynamoDB resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	ec2-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-3	Implement security configurations for all hardware and software assets.	fsx-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon FSx file systems are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Systems-4	Remove unsupported or unauthorized hardware and software from systems.	securityhub-enabled	AWS Security Hub helps to monitor unauthorized personnel, connections, devices, and software. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes the security alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS services. Some such services are Amazon Security Hub, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Partner solutions.
Your Surroundings-1	Learn who is on your network. Maintain inventories of network connections (users, vendors, business partners, etc.).	eip-attached	This rule ensures Elastic IPs allocated to a Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) are attached to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or in-use Elastic Network Interfaces. This rule helps monitor unused EIPs in your environment.
Your Surroundings-1	Learn who is on your network. Maintain inventories of network connections (users, vendors, business partners, etc.).	vpc-flow-logs-enabled	The VPC flow logs provide detailed records for information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). By default, the flow log record includes values for the different components of the IP flow, including the source, destination, and protocol.
Your Surroundings-1	Learn who is on your network. Maintain inventories of network connections (users, vendors, business partners, etc.).	vpc-network-acl-unused-check	This rule ensures that Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network access control lists are in use. Monitoring for unused network access control lists can assist in accurate inventory and management of your environment.
Your Surroundings-2	Leverage multi-factor authentication for all users, starting with privileged, administrative and remote access users.	iam-user-mfa-enabled	Enable this rule to restrict access to resources in the AWS Cloud. This rule ensures multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all users. MFA adds an extra layer of protection on top of sign-in credentials. Reduce the incidents of compromised accounts by requiring MFA for users.
Your Surroundings-2	Leverage multi-factor authentication for all users, starting with privileged, administrative and remote access users.	mfa-enabled-for-iam-console-access	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that MFA is enabled for all AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users that have a console password. MFA adds an extra layer of protection on top of sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for users, you can reduce incidents of compromised accounts and keep sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users.
Your Surroundings-2	Leverage multi-factor authentication for all users, starting with privileged, administrative and remote access users.	root-account-hardware-mfa-enabled	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring hardware MFA is enabled for the root user. The root user is the most privileged user in an AWS account. The MFA adds an extra layer of protection for sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for the root user, you can reduce the incidents of compromised AWS accounts.
Your Surroundings-2	Leverage multi-factor authentication for all users, starting with privileged, administrative and remote access users.	root-account-mfa-enabled	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring MFA is enabled for the root user. The root user is the most privileged user in an AWS account. The MFA adds an extra layer of protection for sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for the root user, you can reduce the incidents of compromised AWS accounts.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	iam-no-inline-policy-check	Ensure an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, IAM role or IAM group does not have an inline policy to control access to systems and assets. AWS recommends to use managed policies instead of inline policies. The managed policies allow reusability, versioning and rolling back, and delegating permissions management.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	iam-policy-no-statements-with-admin-access	AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) can help you incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties with access permissions and authorizations, restricting policies from containing "Effect": "Allow" with "Action": "*" over "Resource": "*". Allowing users to have more privileges than needed to complete a task may violate the principle of least privilege and separation of duties.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	iam-policy-no-statements-with-full-access	Ensure IAM Actions are restricted to only those actions that are needed. Allowing users to have more privileges than needed to complete a task may violate the principle of least privilege and separation of duties.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	iam-root-access-key-check	Access to systems and assets can be controlled by checking that the root user does not have access keys attached to their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Ensure that the root access keys are deleted. Instead, create and use role-based AWS accounts to help to incorporate the principle of least functionality.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	s3-bucket-policy-grantee-check	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by enabling s3_ bucket_policy_grantee_check. This rule checks that the access granted by the Amazon S3 bucket is restricted by any of the AWS principals, federated users, service principals, IP addresses, or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) IDs that you provide.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	secretsmanager-secret-unused	If unused credentials exist in AWS Secrets Manager, you should disable and/or remove the credentials, as this may violate the principle of least privilege. This rule allows you to set a value to the unusedForDays (Config Default: 90). The actual value should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Surroundings-3	Grant access and admin permissions based on need-to-know and least privilege.	opensearch-access-control-enabled	Ensure fine-grained access control is enabled on your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. Fine-grained access control provides enhanced authorization mechanisms to achieve least-privileged access to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. It allows for role-based access control to the domain, as well as index, document, and field-level security, support for OpenSearch Service dashboards multi-tenancy, and HTTP basic authentication for OpenSearch Service and Kibana.
Your Surroundings-4	Leverage unique passwords for all users.	iam-password-policy	The identities and the credentials are issued, managed, and verified based on an organizational IAM password policy. They meet or exceed requirements as stated by NIST SP 800-63 and the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard for password strength. This rule allows you to optionally set RequireUppercaseCharacters (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), RequireLowercaseCharacters (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), RequireSymbols (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), RequireNumbers (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: true), MinimumPasswordLength (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 14), PasswordReusePrevention (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 24), and MaxPasswordAge (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 90) for your IAM Password Policy. The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	kms-cmk-not-scheduled-for-deletion	To help protect data at rest, ensure necessary customer master keys (CMKs) are not scheduled for deletion in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Because key deletion is necessary at times, this rule can assist in checking for all keys scheduled for deletion, in case a key was scheduled unintentionally.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	opensearch-encrypted-at-rest	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	opensearch-https-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data in transit, ensure HTTPS is enabled for connections to your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	alb-http-to-https-redirection-check	To help protect data in transit, ensure that your Application Load Balancer automatically redirects unencrypted HTTP requests to HTTPS. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	api-gw-cache-enabled-and-encrypted	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your API Gateway stage's cache. Because sensitive data can be captured for the API method, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	cloudwatch-log-group-encrypted	To help protect sensitive data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	dynamodb-table-encrypted-kms	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon DynamoDB tables. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in these tables, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data. By default, DynamoDB tables are encrypted with an AWS owned customer master key (CMK).
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	ec2-ebs-encryption-by-default	To help protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in these volumes, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	efs-encrypted-check	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	elasticsearch-encrypted-at-rest	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) domains.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	encrypted-volumes	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	elb-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	elbv2-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	rds-snapshot-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) snapshots. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	rds-storage-encrypted	To help protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Amazon RDS instances, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	redshift-cluster-configuration-check	To protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Redshift clusters. You must also ensure that required configurations are deployed on Amazon Redshift clusters. The audit logging should be enabled to provide information about connections and user activities in the database. This rule requires that a value is set for clusterDbEncrypted (Config Default : TRUE), and loggingEnabled (Config Default: TRUE). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	redshift-cluster-kms-enabled	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your Amazon Redshift cluster. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Redshift clusters, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Amazon S3 buckets, enable encryption to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	s3-default-encryption-kms	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in an Amazon S3 bucket, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	s3-bucket-ssl-requests-only	To help protect data in transit, ensure that your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets require requests to use Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	sagemaker-endpoint-configuration-kms-key-configured	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your SageMaker endpoint. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in SageMaker endpoint, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	sagemaker-notebook-instance-kms-key-configured	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your SageMaker notebook. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in SageMaker notebook, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	sns-encrypted-kms	To help protect data at rest, ensure that your Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics require encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Because sensitive data can exist at rest in published messages, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-1	Learn how your data is protected.	backup-recovery-point-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your AWS Backup recovery points. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	opensearch-audit-logging-enabled	Ensure audit logging is enabled on your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. Audit logging allows you to track user activity on your OpenSearch domains, including authentication successes and failures, requests to OpenSearch, index changes, and incoming search queries.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	api-gw-cache-enabled-and-encrypted	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your API Gateway stage's cache. Because sensitive data can be captured for the API method, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	opensearch-encrypted-at-rest	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	opensearch-https-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data in transit, ensure HTTPS is enabled for connections to your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	api-gw-execution-logging-enabled	API Gateway logging displays detailed views of users who accessed the API and the way they accessed the API. This insight enables visibility of user activities.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	opensearch-logs-to-cloudwatch	Ensure Amazon OpenSearch Service domains have error logs enabled and streamed to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for retention and response. OpenSearch Service error logs can assist with security and access audits, and can help to diagnose availability issues.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	opensearch-node-to-node-encryption-check	Ensure node-to-node encryption for Amazon OpenSearch Service is enabled. Node-to-node encryption enables TLS 1.2 encryption for all communications within the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	acm-certificate-expiration-check	Ensure network integrity is protected by ensuring X509 certificates are issued by AWS ACM. These certificates must be valid and unexpired. This rule requires a value for daysToExpiration (AWS Foundational Security Best Practices value: 90). The actual value should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	alb-http-to-https-redirection-check	To help protect data in transit, ensure that your Application Load Balancer automatically redirects unencrypted HTTP requests to HTTPS. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elbv2-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	api-gw-execution-logging-enabled	API Gateway logging displays detailed views of users who accessed the API and the way they accessed the API. This insight enables visibility of user activities.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	codebuild-project-source-repo-url-check	Ensure the GitHub or Bitbucket source repository URL does not contain personal access tokens, sign-in credentials within AWS Codebuild project environments. Use OAuth instead of personal access tokens or sign-in credentials to grant authorization for accessing GitHub or Bitbucket repositories.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	cloud-trail-cloud-watch-logs-enabled	Use Amazon CloudWatch to centrally collect and manage log event activity. Inclusion of AWS CloudTrail data provides details of API call activity within your AWS account.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	cloudtrail-s3-dataevents-enabled	The collection of Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data events helps in detecting any anomalous activity. The details include AWS account information that accessed an Amazon S3 bucket, IP address, and time of event.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elb-logging-enabled	Elastic Load Balancing activity is a central point of communication within an environment. Ensure ELB logging is enabled. The collected data provides detailed information about requests sent to the ELB. Each log contains information such as the time the request was received, the client's IP address, latencies, request paths, and server responses.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	multi-region-cloudtrail-enabled	AWS CloudTrail records AWS Management Console actions and API calls. You can identify which users and accounts called AWS, the source IP address from where the calls were made, and when the calls occurred. CloudTrail will deliver log files from all AWS Regions to your S3 bucket if MULTI_REGION_CLOUD_TRAIL_ENABLED is enabled. Additionally, when AWS launches a new Region, CloudTrail will create the same trail in the new Region. As a result, you will receive log files containing API activity for the new Region without taking any action.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	rds-logging-enabled	To help with logging and monitoring within your environment, ensure Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) logging is enabled. With Amazon RDS logging, you can capture events such as connections, disconnections, queries, or tables queried.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-logging-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) server access logging provides a method to monitor the network for potential cybersecurity events. The events are monitored by capturing detailed records for the requests that are made to an Amazon S3 bucket. Each access log record provides details about a single access request. The details include the requester, bucket name, request time, request action, response status, and an error code, if relevant.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	vpc-flow-logs-enabled	The VPC flow logs provide detailed records for information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). By default, the flow log record includes values for the different components of the IP flow, including the source, destination, and protocol.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	wafv2-logging-enabled	To help with logging and monitoring within your environment, enable AWS WAF (V2) logging on regional and global web ACLs. AWS WAF logging provides detailed information about the traffic that is analyzed by your web ACL. The logs record the time that AWS WAF received the request from your AWS resource, information about the request, and an action for the rule that each request matched.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elasticsearch-logs-to-cloudwatch	Ensure Amazon OpenSearch Service domains have error logs enabled and streamed to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for retention and response. Domain error logs can assist with security and access audits, and can help to diagnose availability issues.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	cloudwatch-log-group-encrypted	To help protect sensitive data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	dynamodb-table-encrypted-kms	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon DynamoDB tables. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in these tables, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data. By default, DynamoDB tables are encrypted with an AWS owned customer master key (CMK).
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	ec2-ebs-encryption-by-default	To help protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in these volumes, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	efs-encrypted-check	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elasticsearch-encrypted-at-rest	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) domains.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	encrypted-volumes	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	rds-snapshot-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) snapshots. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	rds-storage-encrypted	To help protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Amazon RDS instances, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	redshift-cluster-configuration-check	To protect data at rest, ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Redshift clusters. You must also ensure that required configurations are deployed on Amazon Redshift clusters. The audit logging should be enabled to provide information about connections and user activities in the database. This rule requires that a value is set for clusterDbEncrypted (Config Default : TRUE), and loggingEnabled (Config Default: TRUE). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	redshift-cluster-kms-enabled	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your Amazon Redshift cluster. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Redshift clusters, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption is enabled for your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in Amazon S3 buckets, enable encryption to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-default-encryption-kms	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in an Amazon S3 bucket, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	sagemaker-endpoint-configuration-kms-key-configured	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your SageMaker endpoint. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in SageMaker endpoint, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	sagemaker-notebook-instance-kms-key-configured	To help protect data at rest, ensure encryption with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is enabled for your SageMaker notebook. Because sensitive data can exist at rest in SageMaker notebook, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	sns-encrypted-kms	To help protect data at rest, ensure that your Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics require encryption using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). Because sensitive data can exist at rest in published messages, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	backup-recovery-point-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your AWS Backup recovery points. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	api-gw-ssl-enabled	Ensure Amazon API Gateway REST API stages are configured with SSL certificates to allow backend systems to authenticate that requests originate from API Gateway.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elasticsearch-node-to-node-encryption-check	Ensure node-to-node encryption for Amazon OpenSearch Service is enabled. Node-to-node encryption enables TLS 1.2 encryption for all communications within the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elb-acm-certificate-required	Because sensitive data can exist and to help protect data at transit, ensure encryption is enabled for your Elastic Load Balancing. Use AWS Certificate Manager to manage, provision and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal resources.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elb-tls-https-listeners-only	Ensure that your Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) are configured with SSL or HTTPS listeners. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	redshift-require-tls-ssl	Ensure that your Amazon Redshift clusters require TLS/SSL encryption to connect to SQL clients. Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-ssl-requests-only	To help protect data in transit, ensure that your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets require requests to use Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Because sensitive data can exist, enable encryption in transit to help protect that data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	alb-waf-enabled	Ensure AWS WAF is enabled on Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to help protect web applications. A WAF helps to protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits. These web exploits may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources within your environment.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	dms-replication-not-public	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring DMS replication instances cannot be publicly accessed. DMS replication instances can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	ebs-snapshot-public-restorable-check	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring EBS snapshots are not publicly restorable. EBS volume snapshots can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	ec2-instance-no-public-ip	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances cannot be publicly accessed. Amazon EC2 instances can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	elasticsearch-in-vpc-only	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) Domains are within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). An OpenSearch Service domain within an Amazon VPC enables secure communication between OpenSearch Service and other services within the Amazon VPC without the need for an internet gateway, NAT device, or VPN connection.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	emr-master-no-public-ip	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon EMR cluster master nodes cannot be publicly accessed. Amazon EMR cluster master nodes can contain sensitive information and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	ec2-instances-in-vpc	Deploy Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to enable secure communication between an instance and other services within the amazon VPC, without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, or VPN connection. All traffic remains securely within the AWS Cloud. Because of their logical isolation, domains that reside within an Amazon VPC have an extra layer of security when compared to domains that use public endpoints. Assign Amazon EC2 instances to an Amazon VPC to properly manage access.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	lambda-function-public-access-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring AWS Lambda functions cannot be publicly accessed. Public access can potentially lead to degradation of availability of resources.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	lambda-inside-vpc	Deploy AWS Lambda functions within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for a secure communication between a function and other services within the Amazon VPC. With this configuration, there is no requirement for an internet gateway, NAT device, or VPN connection. All the traffic remains securely within the AWS Cloud. Because of their logical isolation, domains that reside within an Amazon VPC have an extra layer of security when compared to domains that use public endpoints. To properly manage access, AWS Lambda functions should be assigned to a VPC.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	rds-instance-public-access-check	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are not public. Amazon RDS database instances can contain sensitive information, and principles and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	rds-snapshots-public-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are not public. Amazon RDS database instances can contain sensitive information and principles and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	redshift-cluster-public-access-check	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Redshift clusters are not public. Amazon Redshift clusters can contain sensitive information and principles and access control is required for such accounts.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	restricted-common-ports	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring common ports are restricted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security groups. Not restricting access to ports to trusted sources can lead to attacks against the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems. This rule allows you to optionally set blockedPort1 - blockedPort5 parameters (Config Defaults: 20,21,3389,3306,4333). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	restricted-ssh	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Security Groups can help manage network access by providing stateful filtering of ingress and egress network traffic to AWS resources. Not allowing ingress (or remote) traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 to port 22 on your resources help you restricting remote access.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	iam-no-inline-policy-check	Ensure an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, IAM role or IAM group does not have an inline policy to control access to systems and assets. AWS recommends to use managed policies instead of inline policies. The managed policies allow reusability, versioning and rolling back, and delegating permissions management.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-account-level-public-access-blocks-periodic	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets cannot be publicly accessed. This rule helps keeping sensitive data safe from unauthorized remote users by preventing public access. This rule allows you to optionally set the ignorePublicAcls (Config Default: True), blockPublicPolicy (Config Default: True), blockPublicAcls (Config Default: True), and restrictPublicBuckets parameters (Config Default: True). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-level-public-access-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets cannot be publicly accessed. This rule helps keeping sensitive data safe from unauthorized remote users by preventing public access at the bucket level.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-public-read-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by only allowing authorized users, processes, and devices access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The management of access should be consistent with the classification of the data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-public-write-prohibited	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by only allowing authorized users, processes, and devices access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The management of access should be consistent with the classification of the data.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	s3-bucket-policy-grantee-check	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by enabling s3_ bucket_policy_grantee_check. This rule checks that the access granted by the Amazon S3 bucket is restricted by any of the AWS principals, federated users, service principals, IP addresses, or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) IDs that you provide.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	sagemaker-notebook-no-direct-internet-access	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that Amazon SageMaker notebooks do not allow direct internet access. By preventing direct internet access, you can keep sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	subnet-auto-assign-public-ip-disabled	Manage access to the AWS Cloud by ensuring Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets are not automatically assigned a public IP address. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that are launched into subnets that have this attribute enabled have a public IP address assigned to their primary network interface.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	vpc-default-security-group-closed	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security groups can help in the management of network access by providing stateful filtering of ingress and egress network traffic to AWS resources. Restricting all the traffic on the default security group helps in restricting remote access to your AWS resources.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	vpc-sg-open-only-to-authorized-ports	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring common ports are restricted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Security Groups. Not restricting access on ports to trusted sources can lead to attacks against the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems. By restricting access to resources within a security group from the internet (0.0.0.0/0) remote access can be controlled to internal systems.
Your Data-2	Learn what is happening on your network. manage network and perimeter components, host and device components, data-at-rest and in-transit, and user behavior activities.	autoscaling-launch-config-public-ip-disabled	If you configure your Network Interfaces with a public IP address, then the associated resources to those Network Interfaces are reachable from the internet. EC2 resources should not be publicly accessible, as this may allow unintended access to your applications or servers.
Your Data-3	Domain name system protection.	alb-waf-enabled	Ensure AWS WAF is enabled on Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) to help protect web applications. A WAF helps to protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits. These web exploits may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources within your environment.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	db-instance-backup-enabled	The backup feature of Amazon RDS creates backups of your databases and transaction logs. Amazon RDS automatically creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance. The system allows you to set specific retention periods to meet your resilience requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	elb-deletion-protection-enabled	This rule ensures that Elastic Load Balancing has deletion protection enabled. Use this feature to prevent your load balancer from being accidentally or maliciously deleted, which can lead to loss of availability for your applications.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	rds-instance-deletion-protection-enabled	Ensure Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances have deletion protection enabled. Use deletion protection to prevent your Amazon RDS instances from being accidentally or maliciously deleted, which can lead to loss of availability for your applications.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	dynamodb-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon DynamoDB tables are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	dynamodb-pitr-enabled	Enable this rule to check that information has been backed up. It also maintains the backups by ensuring that point-in-time recovery is enabled in Amazon DynamoDB. The recovery maintains continuous backups of your table for the last 35 days.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	ebs-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	ebs-optimized-instance	An optimized instance in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides additional, dedicated capacity for Amazon EBS I/O operations. This optimization provides the most efficient performance for your EBS volumes by minimizing contention between Amazon EBS I/O operations and other traffic from your instance.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	efs-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	elasticache-redis-cluster-automatic-backup-check	When automatic backups are enabled, Amazon ElastiCache creates a backup of the cluster on a daily basis. The backup can be retained for a number of days as specified by your organization. Automatic backups can help guard against data loss. If a failure occurs, you can create a new cluster, which restores your data from the most recent backup.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	rds-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	redshift-backup-enabled	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Redshift clusters have automated snapshots. When automated snapshots are enabled for a cluster, Redshift periodically takes snapshots of that cluster. By default, Redshift takes a snapshot every eight hours or every 5 GB per node of data changes, or whichever comes first.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	s3-bucket-replication-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Cross-Region Replication (CRR) supports maintaining adequate capacity and availability. CRR enables automatic, asynchronous copying of objects across Amazon S3 buckets to help ensure that data availability is maintained.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	s3-bucket-versioning-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket versioning helps keep multiple variants of an object in the same Amazon S3 bucket. Use versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your Amazon S3 bucket. Versioning helps you to easily recover from unintended user actions and application failures.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	aurora-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Aurora resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	backup-plan-min-frequency-and-min-retention-check	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your AWS Backup plan is set for a minimum frequency and retention. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. This rule allows you to set the requiredFrequencyValue (Config default: 1), requiredRetentionDays (Config default: 35) and requiredFrequencyUnit (Config default: days) parameters. The actual value should reflect your organizations requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	backup-recovery-point-minimum-retention-check	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your AWS Backup recovery points have a minimum retention period set. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. This rule allows you to set the requiredRetentionDays (config default: 35) parameter. The actual value should reflect your organizations requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	ec2-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-4	Establish regular automated backups and redundancies of key systems.	fsx-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon FSx file systems are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Your Data-5	Leverage protections for backups, including physical security, encryption and offline copies.	backup-recovery-point-encrypted	Ensure that encryption is enabled for your AWS Backup recovery points. Because sensitive data can exist at rest, enable encryption at rest to help protect that data.
Your Data-5	Leverage protections for backups, including physical security, encryption and offline copies.	backup-recovery-point-manual-deletion-disabled	Ensure that your AWS Backup recovery points have an attached resource-based policy which prevents deletion of recovery points. Using a resource-based policy to prevent deletion of recovery points can assist in preventing accidental or intentional deletion.
Your Crisis Response-2	Lead development of an internal reporting structure to detect, communicate and contain attacks.	guardduty-enabled-centralized	Amazon GuardDuty can help to monitor and detect potential cybersecurity events by using threat intelligence feeds. These include lists of malicious IPs and machine learning to identify unexpected, unauthorized, and malicious activity within your AWS Cloud environment.
Your Crisis Response-2	Lead development of an internal reporting structure to detect, communicate and contain attacks.	securityhub-enabled	AWS Security Hub helps to monitor unauthorized personnel, connections, devices, and software. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes the security alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS services. Some such services are Amazon Security Hub, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Partner solutions.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	db-instance-backup-enabled	The backup feature of Amazon RDS creates backups of your databases and transaction logs. Amazon RDS automatically creates a storage volume snapshot of your DB instance, backing up the entire DB instance. The system allows you to set specific retention periods to meet your resilience requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	dynamodb-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon DynamoDB tables are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	dynamodb-pitr-enabled	Enable this rule to check that information has been backed up. It also maintains the backups by ensuring that point-in-time recovery is enabled in Amazon DynamoDB. The recovery maintains continuous backups of your table for the last 35 days.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	ebs-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	ebs-optimized-instance	An optimized instance in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides additional, dedicated capacity for Amazon EBS I/O operations. This optimization provides the most efficient performance for your EBS volumes by minimizing contention between Amazon EBS I/O operations and other traffic from your instance.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	efs-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	elasticache-redis-cluster-automatic-backup-check	When automatic backups are enabled, Amazon ElastiCache creates a backup of the cluster on a daily basis. The backup can be retained for a number of days as specified by your organization. Automatic backups can help guard against data loss. If a failure occurs, you can create a new cluster, which restores your data from the most recent backup.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	rds-in-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	redshift-backup-enabled	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Redshift clusters have automated snapshots. When automated snapshots are enabled for a cluster, Redshift periodically takes snapshots of that cluster. By default, Redshift takes a snapshot every eight hours or every 5 GB per node of data changes, or whichever comes first.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	s3-bucket-replication-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Cross-Region Replication (CRR) supports maintaining adequate capacity and availability. CRR enables automatic, asynchronous copying of objects across Amazon S3 buckets to help ensure that data availability is maintained.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	s3-bucket-versioning-enabled	Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket versioning helps keep multiple variants of an object in the same Amazon S3 bucket. Use versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your Amazon S3 bucket. Versioning helps you to easily recover from unintended user actions and application failures.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	aurora-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Aurora resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	backup-plan-min-frequency-and-min-retention-check	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your AWS Backup plan is set for a minimum frequency and retention. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. This rule allows you to set the requiredFrequencyValue (Config default: 1), requiredRetentionDays (Config default: 35) and requiredFrequencyUnit (Config default: days) parameters. The actual value should reflect your organizations requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	backup-recovery-point-minimum-retention-check	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your AWS Backup recovery points have a minimum retention period set. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. This rule allows you to set the requiredRetentionDays (config default: 35) parameter. The actual value should reflect your organizations requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	dynamodb-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon DynamoDB resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	ec2-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resources are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-1	Employ a backup solution that automatically and continuously backs up critical data and system configurations.	fsx-resources-protected-by-backup-plan	To help with data back-up processes, ensure your Amazon FSx file systems are a part of an AWS Backup plan. AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service with a policy-based backup solution. This solution simplifies your backup management and enables you to meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-2	Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for accessing your systems whenever possible.MFA should be required of all users, but start with privileged, administrative, and remote access users.	iam-user-mfa-enabled	Enable this rule to restrict access to resources in the AWS Cloud. This rule ensures multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all users. MFA adds an extra layer of protection on top of sign-in credentials. Reduce the incidents of compromised accounts by requiring MFA for users.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-2	Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for accessing your systems whenever possible.MFA should be required of all users, but start with privileged, administrative, and remote access users.	mfa-enabled-for-iam-console-access	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring that MFA is enabled for all AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users that have a console password. MFA adds an extra layer of protection on top of sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for users, you can reduce incidents of compromised accounts and keep sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-2	Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for accessing your systems whenever possible.MFA should be required of all users, but start with privileged, administrative, and remote access users.	root-account-hardware-mfa-enabled	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring hardware MFA is enabled for the root user. The root user is the most privileged user in an AWS account. The MFA adds an extra layer of protection for sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for the root user, you can reduce the incidents of compromised AWS accounts.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-2	Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for accessing your systems whenever possible.MFA should be required of all users, but start with privileged, administrative, and remote access users.	root-account-mfa-enabled	Manage access to resources in the AWS Cloud by ensuring MFA is enabled for the root user. The root user is the most privileged user in an AWS account. The MFA adds an extra layer of protection for sign-in credentials. By requiring MFA for the root user, you can reduce the incidents of compromised AWS accounts.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-3	Enable automatic updates whenever possible. Replace unsupported operating systems, applications and hardware. Test and deploy patches quickly.	ec2-managedinstance-patch-compliance-status-check	Enable this rule to help with identification and documentation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) vulnerabilities. The rule checks if Amazon EC2 instance patch compliance in AWS Systems Manager as required by your organization's policies and procedures.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-3	Enable automatic updates whenever possible. Replace unsupported operating systems, applications and hardware. Test and deploy patches quickly.	rds-automatic-minor-version-upgrade-enabled	Enable automatic minor version upgrades on your Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances to ensure the latest minor version updates to the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) are installed, which may include security patches and bug fixes.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-3	Enable automatic updates whenever possible. Replace unsupported operating systems, applications and hardware. Test and deploy patches quickly.	elastic-beanstalk-managed-updates-enabled	Enabling managed platform updates for an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment ensures that the latest available platform fixes, updates, and features for the environment are installed. Keeping up to date with patch installation is a best practice in securing systems.
Booting Up: Things to Do First-3	Enable automatic updates whenever possible. Replace unsupported operating systems, applications and hardware. Test and deploy patches quickly.	redshift-cluster-maintenancesettings-check	This rule ensures that Amazon Redshift clusters have the preferred settings for your organization. Specifically, that they have preferred maintenance windows and automated snapshot retention periods for the database. This rule requires you to set the allowVersionUpgrade. The default is true. It also lets you optionally set the preferredMaintenanceWindow (the default is sat:16:00-sat:16:30), and the automatedSnapshotRetentionPeriod (the default is 1). The actual values should reflect your organization's policies.

Template

The template is available on GitHub: Operational Best Practices for CISA Cyber Essentials.