Cloudanix home pagelight logodark logo
  • Community
  • Login
  1. Root Account Should Have MFA
  • Overview
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • GitHub
  • AWS Introduction
    • Security of your AWS Account
  • AWS Audit
    • Getting Started with AWS Audit
    • Permissions required for Audit recipe
    • Ad-hoc running an Audit
    • API Gateway Audit
    • Cloudformation Audit
    • CloudFront Audit
    • CloudTrail Audit
    • Cloudwatch Audit
    • DynamoDB Audit
    • EC2 Audit
    • Elastic Search Audit
    • ELB Audit
    • IAM Audit
    • KMS Audit
    • Kubernetes Audit
    • Lambda Audit
    • RDS Audit
    • Redshift Audit
    • Route53 Audit
    • S3 Audit
    • Security Groups Audit
    • SES Audit
    • SNS Audit
  • Resources
    • AWS Services which determine your cost
Edit this page
Raise an issue

Root Account Should Have MFA

​
More Info:

Multifactor Authentication is strongly recommended to be enabled for every account with no exceptions in order to secure your AWS environment and adhere to IAM security best practices.

​
Risk Level

High

​
Address

Security

​
Compliance Standards

CBP, SOC2, CIS, PCIDSS, NIST, ISO27001, HIPAA

​
Additional Reading:

  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_mfa.html
Powered by Mintlify
githubtwitter
  • More Info:
  • Risk Level
  • Address
  • Compliance Standards
  • Additional Reading: