EBS account-level default encryption is not enabled

Data protection

EBS account-level default encryption is not enabled

Risk Level

Informational (4)

Platform(s)

Compliance Frameworks

AWS CIS
AWS Foundational Security Best Practices Controls
FedRAMP
HIPAA
HITRUST
ISO/IEC 27001
New Zealand Information Security Manual
NIST 800-53
NIST-CSF
PCI DSS
SOC 2

Description

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) supports account-level encryption for Elastic Block Store (EBS) service, which uses Key Management Service (KMS) keys. Disabled encryption requires you to build, secure and maintain your own key management infrastructure. You can encrypt volumes and snapshots manually only at creation time - it is impossible to encrypt an existing unencrypted volume or snapshot. While enabled by default, new EBS volumes and snapshot copies are encrypted at rest, which provides an additional layer of data protection.

Recommended Mitigation

It is recommended to enable account-level encryption by default for your EBS volumes and snapshots in your cloud account {CloudAccount}. Enabling EBS default encryption allows to enforce the encryption of every new volume and snapshot copies create in a specific region. For more details please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html#encryption-by-default

EBS account-level default encryption is not enabled

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