iam_no_root_for_tasks

AWS IAM Root User Doing Everyday Tasks

What It Does

This policy template reports on the AWS account if the root user account has been recently used for everyday tasks. Optionally, an email of this report is sent.

How It Works

This policy template leverages the AWS IAM API to generate and examine a credential report. A root user is considered to be doing "everyday tasks" if the root user account has been accessed either via a password or an access key in the user-specified number of days.

Input Parameters

• Email Addresses - Email addresses of the recipients you wish 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 information is available in our documentation.
• Attach CSV To Incident Email - Whether or not to attach the results as a CSV file to the incident email.
• Incident Table Rows for Email Body (#) - The number of results to include in the incident table in the incident email. Set to '0' to not show an incident table at all, and '100000' to include all results. Does not impact attached CSV files or the incident as presented in Flexera One.

Policy Actions

• Sends an email notification.

Prerequisites

This Policy Template uses Credentials for authenticating to datasources -- in order to apply this policy template you must have a Credential registered in the system that is compatible with this policy template. If there are no Credentials listed when you apply the policy template, please contact your Flexera Org Admin and ask them to register a Credential that is compatible with this policy template. The information below should be consulted when creating the credential(s).

• AWS Credential (provider=aws) which has the following permissions:

  • sts:GetCallerIdentity
  • iam:GenerateCredentialReport
  • iam:GetCredentialReport

  Example IAM Permission Policy:

  {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
          {
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": [
                  "sts:GetCallerIdentity",
                  "iam:GenerateCredentialReport",
                  "iam:GetCredentialReport"
              ],
              "Resource": "*"
          }
      ]
  }

• Flexera Credential (provider=flexera) which has the following roles:

  • billing_center_viewer
  • policy_viewer
  • policy_manager*

  * Only required for meta-policy self-termination; not required if not using the meta parent of this policy template.

The Provider-Specific Credentials page in the docs has detailed instructions for setting up Credentials for the most common providers.

Supported Clouds

• AWS

Cost

This policy template does not incur any cloud costs.