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AWS Security Hub - Detect root user lacking MFA
Description
This query detects AWS accounts where the root user does not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled, using AWS Security Hub control IAM.9 findings.
Lack of MFA on the root user increases the risk of unauthorized access and privilege abuse.
- 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.9"
or tostring(ComplianceSecurityControlId) == "IAM.9"
| 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
6b3b9b1d-0d5d-4d4a-9f0f-8d1e2c7a5f44
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC