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Adam Moussa
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Add AWS Backup with offsite vault (audit C-7) (#3)
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* Add AWS Backup with offsite vault (audit C-7)

The account had zero AWS Backup vaults/plans, so 22 of 23 data stores
had no immutable, cross-region recovery path (audit finding C-7). One
ransomware event or rogue delete would erase primary plus same-region
snapshots/PITR.

Phase 1 ("critical data first") protects the seven highest-risk stores
with no offsite leg today (2 RDS, 2 DynamoDB, 3 S3) via a daily plan in
a new us-east-1 vault, copied cross-region into a governance-locked
us-west-2 vault. Governance (not compliance) mode first so the plan can
be validated before committing to irreversible immutability.

The backup service role is backup-only (no restore policies) to stay
least-privilege; restores get a separate audited path later. Resources
are selected by explicit ARN to avoid drifting the stacks that own them.

Deploys via the shared cdk deploy --all alongside the C-1 CloudTrail
stack. See the README pre-deploy gates (S3 versioning, database-1
unencrypted copy smoke-test, DynamoDB PITR) before the first run.

* Grant AWS Backup service use of vault CMKs

The L2 BackupVault does not grant the backup service principal use of a
customer-managed key; the synthesized key policy only delegated to
account IAM. Cross-region copy of encrypted RDS/EBS recovery points uses
KMS grants on the destination key, so without an explicit grant those
copy jobs fail — and silently, since the account has no CloudTrail yet.

Add backup.amazonaws.com crypto + CreateGrant statements to both vault
keys, scoped by aws:SourceAccount (cross-review BLOCK 2; mirrors the
discipline used on the C-1 CloudTrail key). Same class of bug the C-1
cross-review caught on the CloudTrail CMK.
2026-05-29 18:06:17 -04:00
Adam Moussa
dc079edb93 Initial account-baseline stack with CloudTrail (audit C-1)
Multi-region CloudTrail with log-file validation, a rotating KMS CMK, an
Object-Lock'd S3 log bucket, and CloudWatch Logs delivery. First resident of
the account-level security baseline; AWS Backup / 3-2-1 (C-7) lands alongside.

IAM/KMS/S3 policies cross-reviewed; review caught a missing CloudTrail KMS
grant, now added (SourceArn + encryption-context scoped).
2026-05-29 17:44:55 -04:00