iam_no_admin_iam_policies_attached

AWS Report Attached Admin IAM Policies

What it does

AWS policies should grant specific permissions based on the principle of least privilege. This policy checks for any attached AWS policies that have full unrestricted administrative rights and raises an incident if any are present.

Functional Details

When attached AWS policies that have full administrative rights are found, this policy raises an incident and provides a list of relevant policies.

Input Parameters

• 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

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": [
                "iam:ListPolicies",
                "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
                "sts:GetCallerIdentity"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Supported Clouds

• AWS

Cost

This Policy Template does not incur any cloud costs.