[ aws . securityhub ]

describe-standards

Description

Returns a list of the available standards in Security Hub.

For each standard, the results include the standard ARN, the name, and a description.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

describe-standards is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: Standards

Synopsis

  describe-standards
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To return a list of available standards

The following describe-standards example returns the list of available standards.

aws securityhub describe-standards

Output:

{
    "Standards": [
        {
            "StandardsArn": "arn:aws:securityhub:us-west-1::standards/aws-foundational-security-best-practices/v/1.0.0",
            "Name": "AWS Foundational Security Best Practices v1.0.0",
            "Description": "The AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard is a set of automated security checks that detect when AWS accounts and deployed resources do not align to security best practices. The standard is defined by AWS security experts. This curated set of controls helps improve your security posture in AWS, and cover AWS's most popular and foundational services.",
            "EnabledByDefault": true
        },
        {
            "StandardsArn": "arn:aws:securityhub:::ruleset/cis-aws-foundations-benchmark/v/1.2.0",
            "Name": "CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.2.0",
            "Description": "The Center for Internet Security (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.2.0 is a set of security configuration best practices for AWS. This Security Hub standard automatically checks for your compliance readiness against a subset of CIS requirements.",
            "EnabledByDefault": true
        },
        {
            "StandardsArn": "arn:aws:securityhub:us-west-1::standards/pci-dss/v/3.2.1",
            "Name": "PCI DSS v3.2.1",
            "Description": "The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v3.2.1 is an information security standard for entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data. This Security Hub standard automatically checks for your compliance readiness against a subset of PCI DSS requirements.",
            "EnabledByDefault": false
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Security standards in AWS Security Hub in the AWS Security Hub User Guide.

Output

Standards -> (list)

A list of available standards.

(structure)

Provides information about a specific standard.

StandardsArn -> (string)

The ARN of a standard.

Name -> (string)

The name of the standard.

Description -> (string)

A description of the standard.

EnabledByDefault -> (boolean)

Whether the standard is enabled by default. When Security Hub is enabled from the console, if a standard is enabled by default, the check box for that standard is selected by default.

When Security Hub is enabled using the EnableSecurityHub API operation, the standard is enabled by default unless EnableDefaultStandards is set to false .

NextToken -> (string)

The pagination token to use to request the next page of results.