Medium EMR Regional

Amazon EMR security configurations should have encryption at rest enabled

NIST 800-53

Description

Verifies that EMR security configurations have encryption at rest enabled.


Remediation

To enable encryption at rest for your EMR security configuration, you need to update the encryption settings.

Steps

  1. Navigate to the Amazon EMR console
  2. Go to 'Security configurations' in the left navigation
  3. Select your security configuration
  4. Choose 'Edit' to modify the configuration
  5. In the 'Encryption' section, enable 'Encryption at rest'
  6. Configure the encryption settings (KMS key, etc.)
  7. Save the configuration to apply encryption at rest

Compliance

NIST 800-53