New CIS Microsoft SQL 2012 Benchmark Profile for Amazon RDS

Summary

Customers using the existing CIS guidance for compliance scans against Microsoft SQL RDS instances might have run into checks that were not applicable to a database running in RDS. A new profile has been added to the CIS Microsoft SQL 2012 Benchmark that should help overcome those issues by removing checks that can’t be evaluated. The new profile has allowed us to create an audit file more specifically tailored to an RDS database. 

CIS Benchmarks

• CIS Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Benchmark v1.5.0

Target Release Date

31 July 2019

Additional Notes:

It’s expected that CIS will continue to add profiles to the rest of the Microsoft SQL Server and possibly other database benchmarks allowing for RDS specific audit file for other SQL Server versions and RDS database platforms 

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