02 - Enable Global Resources

Ensure Config has Global Resources Enabled

With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting. This is why having config collecting global resources such as IAM user changes is a security best practice and can help with CIS, NIST & GDPR compliance.

Audit & Remediation

Login into your AWS account
Navigate to the Config service at: https://console.aws.amazon.com/config
Navigate to Settings in the left hand panel. Then in the main panel, just under Settings check the status of Recording.

if Recording is off then select the button Turn on
Under Resource types to record ensure Include global resources is selected.

continue this process in each region of your account to ensure all changes are tracked.

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