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ISO 27018 AWS Compliance Guide

ISO 27018 — Privacy standard for protecting PII in public cloud environments. Pavora maps AWS security findings to ISO 27018 controls for continuous compliance monitoring and audit-ready reporting.

Overview

Privacy standard for protecting PII in public cloud environments. Organizations using AWS must configure cloud services to meet ISO 27018 requirements. Pavora automates this by running security checks against AWS resources and mapping findings to ISO 27018 controls — reducing audit preparation from weeks to minutes.

ISO 27018 AWS Compliance Checklist

  1. 1Enable Macie for automated PII discovery across S3
  2. 2Encrypt all S3 buckets with SSE-KMS by default
  3. 3Disable public access on RDS instances with PII
  4. 4Restrict cross-region data transfer for PII workloads
  5. 5Enable CloudTrail across all regions for audit trail
  6. 6Implement IAM least-privilege and review policies quarterly
  7. 7Encrypt all S3 buckets and RDS instances with KMS

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ISO 27018 FAQ

What is ISO 27018 compliance?

Privacy standard for protecting PII in public cloud environments. It defines security, privacy, or operational controls that organizations must implement. Pavora maps its AWS security findings directly to ISO 27018 controls for continuous compliance evidence.

How does Pavora help with ISO 27018?

Pavora runs 500+ security checks across 204+ AWS services and maps each finding to ISO 27018 controls. This provides continuous compliance monitoring instead of point-in-time audits.

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