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turbot/aws_cis
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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:
- Login to AWS Console (with appropriate permissions to View Identity Access Management Account Settings).
- Goto IAM Service on the AWS Console.
- Click on Account Settings on the Left Pane.
- Set "Minimum password length" to
14
or greater. - 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
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.
Tags
folder = CIS v4.0.0/1 Identity and Access Management