Benchmark: AC-3(4) Discretionary Access Control
Description
Enforce [Assignment: organization-defined discretionary access control policy] over the set of covered subjects and objects specified in the policy, and where the policy specifies that a subject that has been granted access to information can do one or more of the following: (a) Pass the information to any other subjects or objects; (b) Grant its privileges to other subjects; (c) Change security attributes on subjects, objects, the system, or the system’s components; (d) Choose the security attributes to be associated with newly created or revised objects; or (e) Change the rules governing access control.
Usage
Browse dashboards and select AC-3(4) Discretionary Access Control:
steampipe dashboardOr run the benchmarks in your terminal:
steampipe check aws_compliance.benchmark.nist_800_53_rev_5_ac_3_4Snapshot and share results via Steampipe Cloud:
steampipe loginsteampipe check --share aws_compliance.benchmark.nist_800_53_rev_5_ac_3_4Benchmarks
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