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What advanced account security measures should a mature organization implement beyond the basic new account setup steps?
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Mature organizations typically implement service control policies through AWS Organizations to enforce guardrails across all accounts, enable AWS Config and CloudTrail organization wide for continuous compliance monitoring and auditing, enforce mandatory multi factor authentication and strong password policies for all IAM Identity Center users, regularly rotate and audit any remaining long lived credentials, and conduct periodic access reviews to ensure permissions remain aligned with the principle of least privilege as the organization and its team members change over time.
aws organizations create-policy --content file://scp-deny-root-actions.json --type SERVICE_CONTROL_POLICY --name DenyRootActionsReal-world example A mature enterprise implements a service control policy across its entire AWS Organization that prevents any account from disabling CloudTrail logging, ensuring consistent audit visibility is maintained organization wide regardless of individual account administrator actions.