Pipeline: 3.6 Ensure rotation for customer-created symmetric CMKs is enabled

Description

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) allows customers to rotate the backing key which is key material stored within the KMS which is tied to the key ID of the customercreated customer master key (CMK). It is the backing key that is used to perform cryptographic operations such as encryption and decryption. Automated key rotation currently retains all prior backing keys so that decryption of encrypted data can take place transparently. It is recommended that CMK key rotation be enabled for symmetric keys. Key rotation can not be enabled for any asymmetric CMK.

Rotating encryption keys helps reduce the potential impact of a compromised key as data encrypted with a new key cannot be accessed with a previous key that may have been exposed. Keys should be rotated every year, or upon event that would result in the compromise of that key.

Remediation

From Console:

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the S3 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3.
In the left navigation pane, click Customer-managed keys.
Select a key where Key spec = SYMMETRIC_DEFAULT that does not have automatic rotation enabled.
Select the Key rotation tab.
Check the Automatically rotate this KMS key every year checkbox.
Click Save.
Repeat steps 3–6 for all customer-managed CMKs that do not have automatic rotation enabled.

From Command Line:

Run the following command to enable key rotation:

aws kms enable-key-rotation --key-id <kms_key_id>

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_3_6

Use this pipeline

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

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
  pipeline = aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_3_6  
}

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

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