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turbot/aws_cis

Pipeline: 1.8 Ensure IAM password policy requires minimum length of 14 or greater

Description

Password policies are, in part, used to enforce password complexity requirements. IAM password policies can be used to ensure password are at least a given length. It is recommended that the password policy require a minimum password length 14.

Setting a password complexity policy increases account resiliency against brute force login attempts.

Remediation

Perform the following to set the password policy is configured as prescribed:

From Console:

Perform the following to set the password policy as prescribed:

From Console:

  1. Login to AWS Console (with appropriate permissions to View Identity Access Management Account Settings).
  2. Goto IAM Service on the AWS Console.
  3. Click on Account Settings on the Left Pane.
  4. Set "Minimum password length" to 14 or greater.
  5. Click "Apply password policy".

From Command Line:

aws iam update-account-password-policy --minimum-password-length 14

Note: All commands starting with "aws iam update-account-password-policy" can be combined into a single command.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_1_8

Use this pipeline

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

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
pipeline = aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_1_8
}

Params

NameTypeRequiredDescriptionDefault
database
connection.steampipe
YesDatabase connection string.connection.steampipe.default
notifier
notifier
YesThe name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.notifier.default
notification_level
string
YesThe verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.info
approvers
list(notifier)
YesList of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.notifier.default

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.

Tags

folder = CIS v4.0.0/1 Identity and Access Management