Policy: AWS > CIS v1 > 1 Identity and Access Management > 1.21 Do not setup access keys during initial user setup for all IAM users that have a console password (Not Scored)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1 (Not Scored)

AWS console defaults the checkbox for creating access keys to enabled. This results in many access keys being generated unnecessarily. In addition to unnecessary credentials, it also generates unnecessary management work in auditing and rotating these keys.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > IAM > Credential Report

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > CIS v1 > 1 Identity and Access Management

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

AWS > CIS v1 > 1 Identity and Access Management > 1.21 Do not setup access keys during initial user setup for all IAM users that have a console password (Not Scored)

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v1`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v1` `Skip` `Check: Level 1 (Not 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/r0121

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0121") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0121'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0121'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0121"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1#/policy/types/r0121"