SEC01-BP06 Automate deployment of standard security controls
Define standard security controls and configurations as infrastructure as code, version control them, test them in a pipeline and deploy them automatically across environments.
Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC01-BP06. 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.
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
- Version control history for those templates · Cloud console / configuration management
- Drift detection and alerting configuration · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- IaC templates holding the standard security baseline · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- CI/CD pipeline definition showing security tests before deploy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- console-applied security settings that no template reproduces
- no pipeline gate so untested changes reach production
- drift never detected because no baseline comparison runs
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-BP05 Reduce security management scope · SEC01-BP07 Identify threats and prioritize mitigations using a threat model