ebs_unencrypted_volumes

AWS Unencrypted Volumes

What it does

This policy checks all Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in a given account and reports on any that are not encrypted.

Functional Details

The policy leverages the AWS EC2 API to determine volume encryption settings.

Input Parameters

• Allowed Regions - A list of allowed regions for an AWS account. Please enter the allowed regions code if SCP is enabled, see Available Regions in AWS; otherwise, the policy may fail on regions that are disabled via SCP. Leave blank to consider all the regions.
• Email addresses of the recipients you wish to notify - A list of email addresses to notify
• Account Number - The Account number for use with the AWS STS Cross Account Role. Leave blank when using AWS IAM Access key and secret. It only needs to be passed when the desired AWS account is different than the one associated with the Flexera One credential. more
• Ignore tags - EBS volumes with any of these tags will be ignored

Policy Actions

• Send an email report

Prerequisites

This policy uses credentials for connecting to the cloud -- in order to apply this policy you must have a credential registered in the system that is compatible with this policy. If there are no credentials listed when you apply the policy, please contact your cloud admin and ask them to register a credential that is compatible with this policy. The information below should be consulted when creating the credential.

Credential configuration

For administrators creating and managing credentials to use with this policy, the following information is needed:

Provider tag value to match this policy: aws , aws_sts

Required permissions in the provider:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement":[{
    "Effect":"Allow",
    "Action":["ec2:DescribeVolumes",
                "ec2:DescribeRegions"],
    "Resource":"*"
    }
  ]
}

Supported Clouds

• AWS

Cost

This Policy Template does not incur any cloud costs.