EvidenceSheet
AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar · Identity & Access Management

SEC03-BP03 Establish emergency access process

Define a documented break-glass procedure for emergency access that bypasses normal SSO when the IdP is unavailable, with strong MFA, monitoring and post-use review.

Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC03-BP03. 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.

4
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
SIEM / log platform
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

  • Alerts on use · SIEM / log platform
  • Post-use review log · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Break glass procedure document · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Isolated break glass account credentials in vault · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Automate the pull from your SIEM / log platform. Retention and alert rules exported from the SIEM; review evidence is the closed-alert record with reviewer and time.

Common gaps auditors find

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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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SEC03-BP02 Grant least privilege access · SEC03-BP04 Reduce permissions continuously