Kinesis should use in-transit encryption
| Severity | Exploitability | Providers | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | LOW | AWS | DATA, NETWORK, PERMISSION |
Description#
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale.
Server-side encryption using AWS KMS ensures that the data is protected when it is moving from one location to another. You must create a User-Generated KMS Master key and specify it manually for a secure access control management.
Impact#
| Potential data exposure | Visible in logs | User interaction required | Privileges required |
|---|---|---|---|
| True | False | False | True |
Not encrypting data in-transit could lead to data leak in case of an attack.
Remediation guidelines#
Enable server-side encryption for a new or already-existing Kinesis stream through
the AWS Management Console. Make sure to unselect the (default) aws/kinesis KMS master
key and generate your own.
In your configuration file, you must set the encryption_type variable to "KMS" and put
you personal key in kms_key_id.