EvidenceSheet
AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar · Security Foundations

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.

Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC01-BP02. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar in the compliance library.

5
artefacts
3
held by a system
1
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. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

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

  • Root access key absence report · Identity provider / directory

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • 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

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.

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SEC01-BP01 Separate workloads using accounts · SEC01-BP03 Identify and validate control objectives