SEC01-BP02 Secure account root user and properties
Protect the root user of every AWS account with strong MFA, no programmatic access keys, monitored email and contact details, and use root only for tasks that explicitly require it.
5
artefacts
3
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
Identity provider / directory
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Root MFA evidence per account · Identity provider / directory
- Alternate contact configuration · Identity provider / directory
- Root usage CloudTrail alerts · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Root access key absence report · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Break glass procedure · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Automate the pull from your Identity provider / directory. Scheduled export of users, roles and MFA state from the directory; access-review completion pulled from the IdP, not a spreadsheet.
Common gaps auditors find
- no MFA on root
- active root access keys
- shared root email mailbox
- no alarm on root sign in
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetSEC01-BP01 Separate workloads using accounts · SEC01-BP03 Identify and validate control objectives