Pipeline: 1.3 Ensure security questions are registered in the AWS account

Description

The AWS support portal allows account owners to establish security questions that can be used to authenticate individuals calling AWS customer service for support. It is recommended that security questions be established.

When creating a new AWS account, a default super user is automatically created. This account is referred to as the 'root user' or 'root' account. It is recommended that the use of this account be limited and highly controlled. During events in which the 'root' password is no longer accessible or the MFA token associated with 'root' is lost/destroyed it is possible, through authentication using secret questions and associated answers, to recover 'root' user login access.

Remediation

From Console:

Login to the AWS Account as the 'root' user.
Click on the <Root_Account_Name> from the top right of the console.
From the drop-down menu Click My Account.
Scroll down to the Configure Security Questions section.
Click on Edit.
Click on each Question.

From the drop-down select an appropriate question.
Click on the Answer section.
Enter an appropriate answer.
- Follow process for all 3 questions.

Click Update when complete.
Save Questions and Answers and place in a secure physical location.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_1_3

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_1_3  
}

Params

Name	Type	Required	Description	Default
database	connection.steampipe	Yes	Database connection string.	`connection.steampipe.default`
notifier	notifier	Yes	The name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.	`notifier.default`
notification_level	string	Yes	The verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.	`info`
approvers	list(notifier)	Yes	List of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.	`notifier.default`

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.