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AWS Security Hub - Detect IAM root user Access Key existence
Description
This query detects AWS Security Hub control IAM.4 findings indicating that an AWS account root user Access Key exists.
A root user Access Key presents a high risk of privilege abuse and should be removed.
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
Data types
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
AWSSecurityHubFindings
| where RecordState == "ACTIVE" and ComplianceStatus == "FAILED"
| where tostring(AwsSecurityFindingGeneratorId) == "security-control/IAM.4"
or tostring(ComplianceSecurityControlId) == "IAM.4"
| extend RootUserARN = tostring(Resources[0].Id)
| summarize TimeGenerated = max(TimeGenerated) by AwsAccountId, AwsRegion, AwsSecurityFindingTitle, AwsSecurityFindingDescription, AwsSecurityFindingId, ComplianceSecurityControlId, RootUserARN
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
171cbece-be87-4467-8754-63d82b3d3dfb
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC