AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar SEC01-BP02: Secure account root user and properties
Protect the root user of every AWS account with strong MFA, no programmatic access keys, monitored email and contact details, and use root only for tasks that explicitly require it.
Maintained by Gerard Blokdyk·Verified against the published standard ·Control text last updated
What else in your programme already covers this
This control maps to 37 controls across 21 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.
NIST-CSF-PR.AA-05 Access permissions, entitlements, and authorizations are defined in a policy, managed, enforced, and reviewed, and incorporate the principles of least privilege and separation of duties
You are reading one control. How much of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar have you already done?
AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar SEC01-BP02 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar your existing evidence covers. Hold NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and 52 of 63 AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar controls already carry evidence.
Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 0 were rejected on the NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 pair alone.