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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure that application Namespaces have Network Policies defined.

    Use network policies to isolate traffic in your cluster network.
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure Network Policy is Enabled

    Use Network Policy to restrict pod to pod traffic within a cluster and segregate workloads.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Encrypt Traffic to Load Balancers and Workloads

    Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers using TLS certificates.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint

    Enable Endpoint Private Access to restrict access to the cluster's control plane to only an allowlist of authorized IPs.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Ensure Private Endpoint Access

    Disable access to the Kubernetes API from outside the node network if it is not required.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Ensure Cluster Private Nodes

    Disable public IP addresses for cluster nodes, so that they only have private IP addresses. Private Nodes are nodes with no public IP addresses.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Kubernetes - Registry Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for Kubernetes registry security practices, and cluster-wide registry configuration.
    Group
  • Only use approved container registries

    Use approved container registries.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning

    Scan images being deployed to Amazon EKS for vulnerabilities.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Ensure Cluster Service Account with read-only access to Amazon ECR

    Configure the Cluster Service Account with Storage Object Viewer Role to only allow read- only access to Amazon ECR.
    Rule Unknown Severity

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