README.md

Managed Audit Manager Assessments (MAMA) - Demo

Intention

This repository hosts the AWS CloudFormation template for my post Managed Audit Manage Assessments (MAMA) - Redux.

First time using Audit Manager

Audit Manager needs to be setup before you can use it for the first time:

Step	Description
1	Navigate to the Audit Manager console and click the Set up AWS Audit Manager button.
2a	Unchecked the Customize encryption settings (advanced) to minimise any possibility of configuration errors.
2b	Leave everything else at default settings and click Complete setup.
3

Deploy the Template

The first step is to save the template locally and then navigate to the AWS CloudFormation Console.

Step	Description
1	Click here to create a new CloudFormation stack.
2	Select Upload a template file and click Next.
3	Specify the stack name, e.g. MyMamaPocDemo then click Next
4	Add in the missing parameter values and click Next.
5	Configure any other stack options as required then click Next.
6	Perform a final review and acknowledge that named IAM Roles will be created then click Create stack.

Once the stack has deployed, click here to view the newly created Assessment.

Finding Frameworks

Once you've setup Audit Manager in your account you can run this AWS CLI command to output a list of all the available Frameworks:

aws auditmanager list-assessment-frameworks --framework-type Standard

If you try and shortcut this before setting up Audit Manager, you will get this error:

An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the ListAssessmentFrameworks operation: Please complete AWS Audit Manager setup from home page to enable this action in this account.