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CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark - Platform

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Kubernetes Settings

    Each section of this configuration guide includes information about the configuration of a Kubernetes cluster and a set of recommendations for hard...
    Group
  • Kubernetes - Account and Access Control

    In traditional Unix security, if an attacker gains shell access to a certain login account, they can perform any action or access any file to which...
    Group
  • Use Dedicated Service Accounts

    Kubernetes workloads should not use cluster node service accounts to authenticate to Amazon EKS APIs. Each Kubernetes workload that needs to authen...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Authentication

    In cloud workloads, there are many ways to create and configure to multiple authentication services. Some of these authentication methods by not be...
    Group
  • Manage Users with AWS IAM

    Amazon EKS uses IAM to provide authentication to your Kubernetes cluster through the AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes. You can configure the st...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Kubernetes - General Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.
    Group
  • Consider Fargate for Untrusted Workloads

    It is Best Practice to restrict or fence untrusted workloads when running in a multi-tenant environment.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Kubernetes Kubelet Settings

    The Kubernetes Kubelet is an agent that runs on each node in the cluster. It makes sure that containers are running in a pod. The kubelet takes a ...
    Group
  • kubelet - Configure the Client CA Certificate

    By default, the kubelet is not configured with a CA certificate which can subject the kubelet to man-in-the-middle attacks. To configure a client ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Ensure that the --read-only-port is secured

    Disable the read-only port.
    Rule Medium Severity

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