Workloads run in the Organization management account
MEDIUMWhat's the problem
SCPs never apply to the management account, so EC2 and RDS running there get no organisation guardrail, and whoever compromises an application there holds the account that controls every other account
How 6WAF detects it
- Deterministic checks through AWS API calls (IAM, S3, EC2/VPC, CloudTrail, KMS, Secrets Manager, ACM, detection services) — no LLM is used for detection; severity is the value the scanner assigns, shown above.
- Scanning uses an IAM Role you deploy yourself via CloudFormation; 6WAF stores no credentials and you revoke access any time by deleting the stack.
- Automated scoring covers only part of the scope of standards such as ISO 27001 — this is a technical assessment, not a certification.
Pillar: Security — Fast Scan
Group: Identity & access (IAM, Secrets Manager)
Reference standard: 6WAF classification (AWS Organizations best practices)
Scan this check (and the other 132) automatically in ~10 minutes
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