Benchmark: CIS v1.0.0

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Overview

This security configuration benchmark covers foundational elements of Alibaba Cloud. The recommendations detailed here provides prescriptive guidance for configuring security options for a subset of Alibaba Cloud services with an emphasis on foundational, testable, and architecture agnostic settings. Specific Alibaba Cloud Services in scope for this document include:

Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Object Storage Service (OSS)
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Container Service for Kubernetes (ACS)
Key Management Service (KMS)
Resource Access Management (RAM)
ActionTrail
Security Center

Profiles

The following configuration profiles are defined by this Benchmark:

Level 1

Items in this profile intend to:

be practical and prudent;
provide security focused best practice hardening of a technology; and
limit impact to the utility of the technology beyond acceptable means.

Level 2 (extends Level 1)

This profile extends the "Level 1" profile. Items in this profile exhibit one or more of the following characteristics:

are intended for environments or use cases where security is more critical than manageability and usability
acts as defense in depth measure
may impact the utility or performance of the technology
may include additional licensing, cost, or addition of third party software

Usage

Install the mod:

mkdir dashboards
cd dashboards
powerpipe mod init
powerpipe mod install github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-alicloud-compliance

Start the Powerpipe server:

steampipe service start
powerpipe server

Open http://localhost:9033 in your browser and select CIS v1.0.0.

Run this benchmark in your terminal:

powerpipe benchmark run alicloud_compliance.benchmark.cis_v100

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe benchmark run alicloud_compliance.benchmark.cis_v100 --share