EvidenceSheet
AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar · Data Protection

SEC08-BP04 Enforce access control

Layer IAM, resource policies, KMS grants, S3 Access Points and VPC endpoint policies to enforce least privilege access to data and prevent exfiltration.

Source: AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, SEC08-BP04. 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
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

  • S3 bucket policies with PrincipalOrgID condition · Identity provider / directory
  • Access Points configuration · Identity provider / directory

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • VPC endpoint policies · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • KMS key policies and grants · 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

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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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