Benchmark: AC-3(3) Mandatory Access Control
Description
Enforce [Assignment: organization-defined mandatory access control policy] over the set of covered subjects and objects specified in the policy, and where the policy: (a) Is uniformly enforced across the covered subjects and objects within the system; (b) Specifies that a subject that has been granted access to information is constrained from doing any of the following; (1) Passing the information to unauthorized subjects or objects; (2) Granting its privileges to other subjects; (3) Changing one or more security attributes (specified by the policy) on subjects, objects, the system, or system components; (4) Choosing the security attributes and attribute values (specified by the policy) to be associated with newly created or modified objects; and (5) Changing the rules governing access control; and (c) Specifies that [Assignment: organization-defined subjects] may explicitly be granted [Assignment: organization-defined privileges] such that they are not limited by any defined subset (or all) of the above constraints.
Usage
Browse dashboards and select AC-3(3) Mandatory Access Control:
steampipe dashboard
Or run the benchmarks in your terminal:
steampipe check aws_compliance.benchmark.nist_800_53_rev_5_ac_3_3
Snapshot and share results via Steampipe Cloud:
steampipe loginsteampipe check --share aws_compliance.benchmark.nist_800_53_rev_5_ac_3_3
Benchmarks
Controls
- EC2 instances should use IMDSv2
- Ensure IAM password policy requires a minimum length of 14 or greater
- IAM groups, users, and roles should not have any inline policies
- IAM policy should not have statements with admin access
- IAM root user hardware MFA should be enabled
- IAM root user MFA should be enabled
- IAM root user should not have access keys
- IAM user access keys should be rotated at least every 90 days
- IAM users with console access should have MFA enabled
- IAM users should be in at least one group
- IAM user MFA should be enabled
- IAM user should not have any inline or attached policies
- IAM user credentials that have not been used in 90 days should be disabled
- Secrets Manager secrets should have automatic rotation enabled
- Secrets Manager secrets should be rotated as per the rotation schedule
- Secrets Manager secrets should be rotated as per the rotation schedule