Ensure that all your IAM user access keys are rotated every month in order to decrease the likelihood of accidental exposures and protect your AWS resources against unauthorized access.
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Rotating Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials periodically will significantly reduce the chances that a compromised set of access keys can be used without your knowledge to access certain components within your AWS account.
Audit
To determine if your AWS IAM users have any outdated (> 30 days) access keys currently in use, perform the following:
Remediation / Resolution
To rotate (change) your outdated IAM access keys, you need to perform the following:
References
- AWS Documentation
- AWS Identity and Access Management FAQs
- Best Practices for Managing AWS Access Keys
- IAM Best Practices
- Managing Access Keys for IAM Users
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- iam
- list-users
- list-access-keys
- create-access-key
- update-access-key
- get-access-key-last-used
- delete-access-key
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Access Keys Rotated 30 Days
Risk level: Low