HIGH

Ensure Organizations has SCPs denying public S3 bucket creation

SCPs should prevent creation of public S3 buckets to reduce data breach risk from misconfigured bucket permissions.

Security Impact

Public S3 buckets are a leading cause of data breaches and compliance violations in cloud environments.

How to Remediate

Create SCP that denies s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock if BlockPublicAcls or BlockPublicPolicy are false.

Affected Resources

AWS::Organizations::Policy

Compliance Frameworks

SOC 2PCI-DSSHIPAAGDPR

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Check Details

Check ID
aws-organizations-9
Service
AWS Organizations
Category
Data Protection
Severity
HIGH

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