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Amazon_SQS_3

Ensure Queue Server Side Encryption is enabled

Description

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues are protecting the contents of their messages using Server-Side Encryption (SSE). The SQS service uses an AWS KMS Customer Master Key (CMK) to generate data keys required for the encryption/decryption process of SQS messages.

Remediation

Perform the following steps to enable Queue server-side encryption:

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
  2. click to SQS dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/.
  3. Choose the SQS queue that you want to encrypt with SSE.
  4. Click on the Queue Actions button from the dashboard top menu and select Configure Queue option to reconfigure the selected queue.
  5. Inside the Configure &lt

Service

SQS

Severity

High

Compliance

Mapping

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