AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar
Data Protection

AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar SEC08-BP03: Automate data at rest protection

Use automated controls such as Config remediation, EventBridge actions and SCPs to detect and correct unencrypted or improperly protected data automatically.

Maintained by Gerard BlokdykVerified against the published standard Control text last updated

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This control maps to 26 controls across 17 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • DP-4 Enable data at rest encryption by default
  • PV-2 Audit and enforce secure configurations

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • CM-6(1) Automated Management, Application, and Verification
  • SC-28(1) Cryptographic Protection

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • CM-6(1) Automated Management, Application, and Verification
  • SC-28(1) Cryptographic Protection

HIPAA Security Rule · 2 controls

ISO 27001:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.36 Compliance with policies, rules and standards for information security
  • 8.9 Configuration management
  • NIST-CSF-PR.DS-01 The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data-at-rest are protected
  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-01 Configuration management practices are established and applied

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · 2 controls

NIST SP 800-66 Rev 2 · 2 controls

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.9 Configuration management

ISO 27701:2019 · 1 control

PCI DSS 4.0 · 1 control

  • 3.5.1 3.5.1 Stored PAN rendered unreadable

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC7.1 CC7.1 Detecting configuration changes and new vulnerabilities

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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