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Ensure that your Amazon EFS file systems are encrypted in order to meet security and compliance requirements. Your data is transparently encrypted while being written and transparently decrypted while being read from your file system, therefore the encryption process does not require any additional action from you or your application. Encryption keys are managed by AWS KMS service, eliminating the need to build and maintain a secure key management infrastructure.

Risk Level

High

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

HIPAA, GDPR, CISAWS, CBP, NIST

Triage and Remediation

Check Cause

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon API Gateway console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose APIs. This will display a list of all your APIs.

  3. Select the API you want to check. This will open the API Gateway dashboard for the selected API.

  4. In the API Gateway dashboard, navigate to the “Settings” section. Here, look for the “Encryption” settings. If the “Encrypt Data at Rest” option is enabled, then EFS encryption is enabled for the API Gateway. If not, then EFS encryption is not enabled.

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