Control: AWS > CIS v6.0 > 2 - Identity and Access Management > 2.14 - Ensure IAM users receive permissions only through groups

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1

IAM users are granted access to services, functions, and data through IAM policies. There are four ways to define policies for a user: 1. Edit the user policy directly, aka an inline, or user, policy; 2. attach a policy directly to a user; 3. add the user to an IAM group that has an attached policy; 4. add the user to an IAM group that has an inline policy.

Only the third implementation is recommended.

Resource Types

This control targets the following resource types:

AWS > IAM > User

Policies

This control type relies on these other policies when running actions:

In Your Workspace

Developers

Control Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv6-0#/control/types/r0214

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v0716

GraphQL

query controlType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv6-0#/control/types/r0214") { … }

query controls(filter: "controlTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv6-0#/control/types/r0214'") { … }

CLI

Get Controls

turbot graphql controls --filter "controlTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv6-0#/control/types/r0214"