Policy: AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management > 1.09 - Ensure IAM password policy prevents password reuse (Automated)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1 (Scored)

IAM password policies can prevent the reuse of a given password by the same user. It is recommended that the password policy prevent the reuse of passwords. This control checks whether the number of passwords to remember is set to 24. The control state will be in Alarm if the value is not set to 24.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > IAM > Account Password Policy

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management` `Skip` `Check: Level 1 (Scored)`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v070404

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0109

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0109") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0109'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0109'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0109"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0109"