SCSEC02-BP01 Track cloud resources and enforce compliance with automation

Implement automated monitoring systems to continuously track and inventory all cloud resources throughout your supply chain environment. Establish compliance guardrails with automated enforcement mechanisms that validate configurations against security and regulatory requirements before deployment.

Use automation to regularly audit existing resources, detect drift from approved configurations, and remediate non-compliant resources without manual intervention. This approach maintains consistent governance across your supply chain while reducing the operational burden of compliance management.

Desired outcome: Continuous compliance tracking and automated remediation across multiple accounts and regions.

Benefits of establishing this best practice: Real-time detection, automated fixing of non-compliant configurations, reduced risk of non-compliance and improved efficiency in managing regulatory requirements.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: high

Implementation guidance

Configure AWS Config rules to evaluate resources on a periodic or real-time basis for continuous compliance monitoring, while utilizing AWS Config and its proactive mode to automatically track and remediate resource configurations for continuous compliance across accounts and regions.

Enable AWS Security Hub standards and controls to continuously evaluate if security requirements are met across your supply chain environments, and Implement automated workflows to route security findings from AWS Security Hub to your incident response and remediation processes.

Implementation steps

1. Deploy AWS Config across the accounts and regions in your supply chain environment, configuring both periodic and change-triggered evaluation rules to monitor resource configurations against compliance standards.

2. Activate AWS Config's proactive mode to automatically remediate non-compliant resources, making sure configurations consistently meet security requirements without manual intervention.

3. Enable relevant AWS Security Hub standards (such as CIS AWS Foundations, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and industry-specific frameworks) to comprehensively evaluate security posture across your supply chain accounts.

4. Create custom Security Hub insights that focus specifically on supply chain-critical resources and configurations to prioritize security findings relevant to your business operations.

5. Implement automated workflows using EventBridge and Lambda to route Security Hub findings to appropriate teams, ticketing systems, and remediation processes based on severity and resource type.

6. Establish dashboards and regular reporting mechanisms that provide visibility into compliance status, trends, and remediation effectiveness across your supply chain environment.