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[EKS] [request]: Automated EKS CIS benchmarking of nodes

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**Assessing compliance of EKS CIS standards into standard AWS security services**
Having a overall view of infrastructure configuration from a security perspective in a single place is valuable. kube-bench scores compliance of EKS configuration against the EKS CIS standard. However, running the eks benchmark against EKS deployments is manual and not available through an AWS managed component. It would be great if CIS EKS could be executed and findings / results reflected back into security monitoring services - Security Hub provides a great place to aggregate findings from various systems in a single service.

**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS (and Fargate?)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reviewing the EKS CIS benchmarking request and how kube-bench currently assesses EKS configuration. Investigate the AWS Security Hub integration point and clarify whether EKS nodes, Fargate, or both are in scope. Done means automated CIS results are collected and reflected as findings in the security monitoring service.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, kubernetes
Domain
cloud, infrastructure, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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