Policy: AWS > CIS v1 > 1 Identity and Access Management > 1.16 Ensure IAM policies are attached only to groups or roles (Scored)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1 (Scored)

By default, IAM users, groups, and roles have no access to AWS resources. IAM policies are the means by which privileges are granted to users, groups, or roles. It is recommended that IAM policies be applied directly to groups and roles but not users.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > IAM > User

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/r0116

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0116") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0116'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0116'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0116"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0116"