What does ACB mean in UNCLASSIFIED

AWS CIS Benchmark is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) security standard developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). It is designed to help organizations assess and improve their security posture on the AWS cloud platform. The benchmark provides best practice guidelines for secure deployment of applications, services, and data on AWS.

Following the AWS CIS Benchmark helps organizations identify potential security risks in their environment and develop a plan to address them. Additionally, it provides guidance on how to implement security controls to protect sensitive data and systems from unauthorized access and potential threats.

The Component of the CIS Security Controls Framework includes a set of best practices that are categorized into four domains - Identify, Protect, Detect and Respond - which provide organizations with comprehensive coverage for their entire IT infrastructure. Additionally, they provide a flexible approach to addressing specific needs within an organization’s IT environment to ensure appropriate levels of protection.

Examples of control objectives covered by the AWS CIS benchmark include protecting against data loss or breach through encryption, implementing identity management processes such as multi-factor authentication or Single Sign On (SSO), ensuring strong password policy enforcement, keeping system software updated with latest patches and service packs, hardening network devices such as firewalls or routers, and monitoring events related to incident response or compliance management.

Yes. The framework covers various code-level vulnerability scanning techniques that can be used to detect software vulnerabilities in applications deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This involves regular scans using automated tools as well as manual review of source code for any potential weaknesses that might lead to malicious exploitation or unplanned disruption.

Yes. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) maintains a dedicated website with additional resources such as tutorials, educational materials, guidance documents and tools related to implementation of security controls outlined in the framework. In addition there are various third party vendors that offer solutions specifically tailored around this framework such as cloud security gateways or secure configuration management platforms.

Yes. Amazon provides both technical assistance and training programs related to implementing various aspects outlined in this standard including setting up access control policies for EC2 instances, configuring S3 storage buckets securely or deploying logging services across multiple accounts/regions. These services are provided either through individual consultations with Amazon engineers or through online courses offered by authorized partners who specialize in providing these types of services around this standard.