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Control: 1.1 Avoid the use of the 'root' account
Description
An Alibaba Cloud account can be viewed as a “root” account. The "root" account has full control permissions to all cloud products and resources under such account. It is highly recommended that the use of this account should be avoided.
Remediation
All users should operate resources at the RAM user level and follow the principle of least privilege. Follow the remediation instructions of the Ensure RAM policies are attached only to groups or roles recommendation. For more information about RAM user, see terms of RAM user.
Usage
Run the control in your terminal:
powerpipe control run alicloud_compliance.control.cis_v100_1_1Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:
powerpipe loginpowerpipe control run alicloud_compliance.control.cis_v100_1_1 --shareSQL
This control uses a named query:
ram_root_account_unused