U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Checklist Program

National Checklist Program

NCP

  1. Checklist Repository

CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0 Checklist Details (Checklist Revisions)

Supporting Resources:

Target:

Target CPE Name
Amazon Web Services cpe:/a:amazon:web_services:- (View CVEs)

Checklist Highlights

Checklist Name:
CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark
Checklist ID:
853
Version:
v1.3.0
Type:
Compliance
Review Status:
Final
Authority:
Third Party: Center for Internet Security (CIS)
Original Publication Date:
05/24/2018

Checklist Summary:

This document provides prescriptive guidance for configuring security options for a subset of Amazon Web Services with an emphasis on foundational, testable, and architecture agnostic settings. Specific Amazon Web Services in scope for this document include: ? AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) ? AWS Config ? AWS CloudTrail ? AWS CloudWatch ? AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) ? AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) ? AWS VPC (Default)

Checklist Role:

  • Virtualization Server
  • Business Productivity Application

Known Issues:

Not provided.

Target Audience:

This document is intended for system and application administrators, security specialists, auditors, help desk, platform deployment, and/or DevOps personnel who plan to develop, deploy, assess, or secure solutions in Amazon Web Services.

Target Operational Environment:

  • Managed

Testing Information:

Not provided.

Regulatory Compliance:

Not provided.

Comments/Warnings/Miscellaneous:

Not provided.

Disclaimer:

https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-securesuite/cis-securesuite-membership-terms-of-use/

Product Support:

feedback@cisecurity.org

Point of Contact:

feedback@cisecurity.org

Sponsor:

Not provided.

Licensing:

https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-securesuite/cis-securesuite-membership-terms-of-use/

Change History: 

updated to FINAL - 7/3/2018

Dependency/Requirements:

URL Description

References:

Reference URL Description

NIST checklist record last modified on 07/03/2018