16 - Stale Users

Ensure users that have not logged in the past 30 days are disabled

Users that are currently not using the AWS console should be disabled or deleted. For this reason it is considered a security best practice to ensure the account is not used and monitor its usage. Ensuring that the root account is not used will help you with CIS and NIST Compliance.

Audit & Remediation

Login into your AWS account.
Navigate to the IAM service at: https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam
On the left hand panel, navigate to Access reports, the select Credential report.
Select the button Download Report.
Open up the excel spreadsheet that was downloaded and filter for password_enabled set to TRUE and look for password_last_used greater then 30 days.

Disable the user account for anyone past 30 days.
Repeat the outlined steps in each of your accounts.

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