SEC08-BP03 Automate data at rest protection
Use automated controls such as Config remediation, EventBridge actions and SCPs to detect and correct unencrypted or improperly protected data automatically.
Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC08-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.
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
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Config managed rules and remediation actions · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Auto remediation Lambda functions · Document repository
- Remediation success rate · Document repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- manual remediation only
- Config rules detect but do not remediate
- no SCP enforcement
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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