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Stax now supports daily Compliance notifications, in addition to the existing daily Cost notifications. These notifications allow you to retrieve a proactive summary of your organization's compliance posture based on Rules configured in the Compliance module.

This new notification shows:

• Count of new high priority rules failing since the day before

• Count of new high priority resources failing since the day before

• A list of high priority resource changes since the day before

This notification can be received by all supported channels for Notifications. To get started, see Create a Notification.

Stax has introduced support for the Center for Internet Security's Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0. This introduces the following changes over the previous iteration, version 1.3.0:

Three new rules were added to the Benchmark:

• 2.1.3: Ensure MFA Delete is enabled on S3 buckets

• 2.1.4: Ensure all data in Amazon S3 has been discovered, classified and secured when required (This rule cannot be automatically checked by Stax, see below for more details)

• 2.3.1: Ensure that encryption is enabled for RDS instances

One rule changed category:

• 2.1.5: Ensure that S3 Buckets are configured with 'Block public access (bucket settings)' was moved from Identity and Access Management to Storage.

The Rule Bundle cannot validate all components of the Benchmark, so the following items must be evaluated manually:

• 1.1: Maintain current contact details

• 1.2: Ensure security contact information is registered

• 1.3: Ensure security questions are registered in the AWS account

• 1.18: Ensure IAM instance roles are used for AWS resource access from instances

• 1.21: Ensure IAM users are managed centrally via identity federation or AWS Organizations for multi-account environments

• 2.1.4: Ensure all data in Amazon S3 has been discovered, classified and secured when required

• 5.4: Ensure routing tables for VPC peering are "least access"

To enable this new version of the Bundle, see Keep Bundles Up To Date. If you have automatic updates enabled, no action is required.

Stax has introduced new functionality on the Policies page which lets you attach Policies to Account Types or detach Policies. In addition, you can now see which Account Types have Policies attached. These changes make it easier to adjust Policy attachments and discern which Policies are in use.

Stax has introduced filtering and sorting to the Permission Sets and Permission Set Assignment views.

This makes it easier to find relevant Permission Sets or Assignments.

• By default Permission Sets are filtered to show only those with a status of Active, and are shown in descending order by Created Date

• Multiple Permission Set filters can be added or removed for the Created By and Status properties

• By default Permission Set Assignments are filtered to show only those with a status of Deployment Complete and are shown in descending order by Created Date

• Multiple Permission Set Assignment filters can be added or removed for the Account Type, Created By, Group, and Status properties

• Both Permission Sets and Permission Set Assignments can be sorted by clicking on the relevant column heading

To get started, see Permission Sets in the docs.

Stax has introduced changes to Stax Workloads API endpoints to improve support for pagination.

This makes it easier to deal with large volumes of Workloads and Workload Catalog Items when using the Stax API.

• Fixed pagination on the Fetch Workloads API endpoint. This endpoint now correctly returns all matching results based on filters and accurately reports the correct total number of results: stax-au1 stax-us1 stax-eu1

• Added pagination on the Fetch Catalog Items API endpoint. This endpoint now supports pagination in a consistent manner with the rest of the Workloads API endpoints: stax-au1 stax-us1 stax-eu1

These changes have been applied automatically by Stax. Should you experience any issues, please raise a support case.

Improvements have been released to Stax's Accounts API endpoints with a focus on account alias management, AWS account ID filtering, and pagination.

• Account Alias management: The Accounts API endpoints (stax-au1 stax-eu1 stax-us1) now support creating and updating account aliases for Stax-managed AWS accounts. This is enabled by way of the AwsAccountAlias request parameter. Account aliases must comply with AWS requirements.

• AWS account ID filtering: The Accounts API endpoints (stax-au1 stax-eu1 stax-us1) now support filtering AWS accounts by their AWS account ID. The previous behaviour required that filtering be performed based on the Stax UUID for accounts. This is enabled by way of the aws_account_id_filter request parameter.

• Pagination improvements: A bug impacting pagination of the Fetch Accounts API endpoint has been fixed. Previously, a GET request to the Fetch Accounts (stax-au1 stax-eu1 stax-us1) endpoint would return some pages of empty results when a filter was applied. With this resolution, empty results are removed from responses and only resources identified by the filter are returned.

The security foundation account has been delegated as the AWS Firewall Manager administrator for Stax-managed AWS Organizations.

This change means that the security foundation account can now be used to centrally manage Firewall Manager policies.

For organizations where the AWS Firewall Manager administrator role has already been delegated to an account other than the security foundation account, this configuration remains unaltered. Should there be a requirement to change the AWS Firewall Manager administrator delegated account from its existing account to the security foundation account, please raise a support case.

Stax has released several improvements to the Cost & Compliance module. This enhances the functionality of the Rules page, as well as changes to make the Views capability suit some use cases better.

CIS Benchmark Rules added to Rule Catalog​

Traditionally, the only way to consume Rules from the CIS Benchmark was to enable the entire Rule Bundle. This update enables the individual Rules to be selected and enabled from the Catalog.

Rule Filtering Now Supports Search by ARN Prefix​

When filtering rules by resource Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), you can now search by ARN prefix, allowing for more precise results to be returned. ARN filtering supports matching both the full ARN, or a subset of characters.

Hide Unallocated Segments from Global Filters View​

Stax now supports hiding the default Unallocated segments on the Global Filters menu. This setting is enabled on a per-View basis from the View's settings page.

Customers subscribed only to the Stax Cost & Compliance module can now set notification preferences when inviting new users. Admins can customize the user's default notifications to align with their needs.

After joining Stax, users can manage their notifications and make changes to their preferences.

Permission Sets allows for fine-grained control of permissions when users log in to Stax-managed AWS accounts.

This new feature allows for users in Stax groups to be assigned AWS IAM Policies defining their level of access to accounts in Stax Account Types. Each Permission Set consists of a policy document and a number of (zero or more) assignments. The policy document defines what someone utilizing the Permission Set can do, and the assignment defines who can utilize the Permission Set and where.

To get started, see Permission Sets in the docs.