Control: 1.9 Ensure multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled at the account level
Description
Requires users to provide multiple factors of login credentials to authenticate their identity and gain access to IBM Cloud resources.
Remediation
From Console
- Log in to IBM Cloud.
- From the Menubar, click Manage > Access (IAM).
- Click Settings > Account login.
- Click Edit for the Account login setting.
- Select None, Non-federated users only, or All users depending on which type of authentication you want to require.
- Select the checkbox to confirm that you understand the impact of requiring MFA for users in your account, if you select the non-federated users only option.
- Click Update.
Usage
Run the control in your terminal:
powerpipe control run ibm_compliance.control.cis_v100_1_9Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:
powerpipe loginpowerpipe control run ibm_compliance.control.cis_v100_1_9 --shareSQL
This control uses a named query:
select account_id as resource, case when mfa = 'NONE' then 'alarm' else 'ok' end as status, case when mfa = 'NONE' then 'MFA not enabled for all users in account.' else 'MFA enabled for all users in account.' end as reason, account_idfrom ibm_iam_account_settings;