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CIS Benchmarks are a globally recognized best practice for securing IT systems and data. CIS features specific benchmarks for cloud platforms like AWS. Within Vanta, you can automate tests specific to the CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark. These tests work like all of Vanta’s other automated tests, continuously checking against your integrated tool (AWS in this instance) and the CIS Benchmark, alerting you when items need attention along the way. Vanta also supports CIS Benchmarks for Kubernetes.
CIS Foundation Benchmark tests are only available on Vanta’s Growth and Scale plans. You will see the tests automatically added if you have the SOC 2, ISO 27001, or CIS v8 frameworks
CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark Tests
Ensure no 'root' user account access key exists
Ensure MFA is enabled for the 'root' user account
Ensure IAM password policy requires minimum length of 14 or greater
Ensure IAM password policy prevents password reuse
Ensure multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled for all IAM users that have a console password
Ensure credentials unused for 45 days or greater are disabled
Ensure there is only one active access key available for any single IAM user
Ensure access keys are rotated every 90 days or less
Ensure IAM Users Receive Permissions Only Through Groups
Ensure IAM policies that allow full "*:*" administrative privileges are not attached
Ensure a support role has been created to manage incidents with AWS Support
Ensure IAM instance roles are used for AWS resource access from instances
Ensure that all the expired SSL/TLS certificates stored in AWS IAM are removed
Ensure that IAM Access analyzer is enabled for all regions
Ensure S3 Bucket Policy is set to deny HTTP requests
Ensure that S3 Buckets are configured with 'Block public access (bucket settings)'
Ensure EBS Volume Encryption is Enabled in all Regions
Ensure that encryption-at-rest is enabled for RDS Instances
Ensure Auto Minor Version Upgrade feature is Enabled for RDS Instances
Ensure that public access is not given to RDS Instance
Ensure that encryption is enabled for EFS file systems
Ensure CloudTrail is enabled in all regions
Ensure CloudTrail log file validation is enabled
Ensure AWS Config is enabled in all regions
Ensure S3 bucket access logging is enabled on the CloudTrail S3 bucket
Ensure CloudTrail logs are encrypted at rest using KMS CMKs
Ensure rotation for customer-created symmetric CMKs is enabled
Ensure VPC flow logging is enabled in all VPCs
Ensure that Object-level logging for write events is enabled for S3 bucket
Ensure that Object-level logging for read events is enabled for S3 bucket
Ensure AWS Security Hub is enabled
Ensure no Network ACLs allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports
Ensure no security groups allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports
Ensure no security groups allow ingress from ::/0 to remote server administration ports
Ensure the default security group of every VPC restricts all traffic
Ensure that EC2 Metadata Service only allows IMDSv2