Policy: AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management > 1.15 - 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 policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > IAM > User

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0115

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0115") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0115'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0115'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0115"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0115"