Policy: AWS > CIS v1 > 1 Identity and Access Management > 1.05 Ensure IAM password policy requires at least one uppercase letter (Scored)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1 (Scored)

Password policies are, in part, used to enforce password complexity requirements. IAM password policies can be used to ensure password are comprised of different character sets. It is recommended that the password policy require at least one uppercase letter.

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 > 1 Identity and Access Management

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v1`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v1` `Skip` `Check: Level 1 (Scored)`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0105

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0105") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0105'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0105'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0105"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0105"