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Governance: Set up safety controls on the organizational stage

This can be a continuation of my sequence on automating cybersecurity metrics.

As a reminder, I used to be lately contemplating safe domains migrated to a single AWS account at a devoted group. I’ve thought-about the professionals and cons of utilizing numerous IAM roles and the way somebody would possibly enhance the privileges to entry that account’s assets.

Within the final submit, I reiterated The Dry Precept (Do not Repeat Your self). I’ve written about this a number of occasions, however I made a decision to summarize it in a single submit:

That idea is relevant to at least one extra AWS assemble that we will use in our IAM structure to assist shield our assets and supply governance throughout our group. Within the cloud, we don’t permit entry to Route 53 area administration options on each account for each consumer, group, or function. However we now have an alternative choice that permits us to implement this coverage in a single place, one time, globally.

AWS Service Management Insurance policies (SCPs) present the flexibility to create an organization-wide coverage that applies to all your AWS accounts.

As a substitute of writing code again and again to limit entry, we will write an organization-wide coverage to restrict actions throughout the board with a number of minor exceptions.

Deny all however one function to carry out sure actions

AWS supplies the next instance of an SCP that denies specific actions to all however a single administrative function.

We are able to implement MFA to tackle the function.

We are able to leverage the ideas on this pattern coverage to require MFA to imagine the function.

Forestall the foundation consumer of the account from performing unauthorized actions

We are able to additionally deny entry to the foundation consumer of the AWS account:

Forestall group account deletion

The opposite factor somebody would possibly attempt to do to bypass the restrictions could be to take away the account from the group. We are able to forestall that too.

Keep away from utilizing often energetic periods to carry out delicate actions

Now we have to determine who, precisely, will have the ability to handle the domains. We wish to write an SCP that permits anybody besides that particular function to entry the account or handle the domains.

I’ll arrange a unique consumer and function to handle domains and disable automation keys when not in use.

The identical applies to the consumer account that manages SCP.

Restrict who can change SCPs

Now we have the identical complication with SCPs that we now have with different IAM permissions. Anybody who has permission to alter the insurance policies can change or take away them in accordance with their very own wants. I’m going to make use of a consumer separate from my ROOT consumer to implement SCP.

If we use an SCP to forestall an IAM consumer from transferring a site title, however the IAM administrator can change the SCPs, then we now have defeated the aim of the SCP.

We could must separate consumer administration from organizational coverage administration. Maybe organizational politics falls underneath the class of presidency.

Automated SCP Deployment through CloudFormation

Evidently a few of the documentation I referenced above is wrong as a result of I discovered a CloudFormation useful resource that appears to create an SCP:

Subsequent steps

It seems to be like these are the following steps (if all of those are attainable):

• Create or select a principal that has permission to implement SCP.
• Create or select a principal that has permission to handle domains (transfers, registration, deregistration).
• Create an SCP that denies everybody besides our SCP supervisor from creating, modifying, or deleting SCPs.
• Create an SCP to require MFA for all function assumptions for customers.
• Create an SCP that denies all Route 53 area actions besides our major area admin, and solely on the domains account.
• Create an SCP to disclaim PassRole to any consumer as a result of as acknowledged we presently do not want that permission and it poses a threat. (We use roles with the CLI and require MFA.) We are able to restore this permission once we want it later.
• Create a PermissionBoundary that solely permits customers to alter their very own password, handle their very own MFA keys, or add their very own developer keys. *
• Create an SCP to disclaim the usage of the CreateUser permission to anybody apart from our IAM administrator and may solely add a consumer with the required PermissionBoundary.
• Restrict the actions of the foundation account.
• Forestall the account from being faraway from the group to bypass the foundations.

* We could have a problem with this in relation to our automation accounts, however we’ll cross that bridge once we get to it.

Nicely, that is the thought, however we’ll should see the way it works once we attempt to implement it.

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