Ensure Organizations has SCPs preventing security service disablement
SCPs should deny permissions to disable security services like GuardDuty, SecurityHub, Config, and CloudWatch.
Security Impact
Attackers or malicious insiders can disable security monitoring to hide their activities.
How to Remediate
Create SCPs denying disable/delete actions for GuardDuty, SecurityHub, Config, Macie, and other security services.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-organizations-13
- Service
- AWS Organizations
- Category
- Security Protection
- Severity
- CRITICAL
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