Security Hub controls for Kinesis

These AWS Security Hub controls evaluate the Amazon Kinesis service and resources.

These controls may not be available in all AWS Regions. For more information, see Availability of controls by Region.

[Kinesis.1] Kinesis streams should be encrypted at rest

Related requirements: NIST.800-53.r5 CA-9(1), NIST.800-53.r5 CM-3(6), NIST.800-53.r5 SC-13, NIST.800-53.r5 SC-28, NIST.800-53.r5 SC-28(1), NIST.800-53.r5 SC-7(10), NIST.800-53.r5 SI-7(6)

Category: Protect > Data Protection > Encryption of data-at-rest

Severity: Medium

Resource type: AWS::Kinesis::Stream

AWS Config rule: kinesis-stream-encrypted

Schedule type: Change triggered

Parameters: None

This control checks if Kinesis Data Streams are encrypted at rest with server-side encryption. This control fails if a Kinesis stream is not encrypted at rest with server-side encryption.

Server-side encryption is a feature in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams that automatically encrypts data before it's at rest by using an AWS KMS key. Data is encrypted before it's written to the Kinesis stream storage layer, and decrypted after it's retrieved from storage. As a result, your data is encrypted at rest within the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams service.

Remediation

For information about enabling server-side encryption for Kinesis streams, see How do I get started with server-side encryption? in the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide.

[Kinesis.2] Kinesis streams should be tagged

Category: Identify > Inventory > Tagging

Severity: Low

Resource type: AWS::Kinesis::Stream

AWS Configrule: tagged-kinesis-stream (custom Security Hub rule)

Schedule type: Change triggered

Parameters:

Parameter	Description	Type	Allowed custom values	Security Hub default value
requiredTagKeys	List of non-system tag keys that the evaluated resource must contain. Tag keys are case sensitive.	StringList	List of tags that meet AWS requirements	No default value

This control checks whether an Amazon Kinesis data stream has tags with the specific keys defined in the parameter requiredTagKeys. The control fails if the data stream doesn’t have any tag keys or if it doesn’t have all the keys specified in the parameter requiredTagKeys. If the parameter requiredTagKeys isn't provided, the control only checks for the existence of a tag key and fails if the data stream isn't tagged with any key. System tags, which are automatically applied and begin with aws:, are ignored.

A tag is a label that you assign to an AWS resource, and it consists of a key and an optional value. You can create tags to categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. Tags can help you identify, organize, search for, and filter resources. Tagging also helps you track accountable resource owners for actions and notifications. When you use tagging, you can implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) as an authorization strategy, which defines permissions based on tags. You can attach tags to IAM entities (users or roles) and to AWS resources. You can create a single ABAC policy or a separate set of policies for your IAM principals. You can design these ABAC policies to allow operations when the principal's tag matches the resource tag. For more information, see What is ABAC for AWS? in the IAM User Guide.

Note

Don’t add personally identifiable information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in tags. Tags are accessible to many AWS services, including AWS Billing. For more tagging best practices, see Tagging your AWS resources in the AWS General Reference.

Remediation

To add tags to a Kinesis data stream, see Tagging your streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in the Amazon Kinesis Developer Guide.