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How to Find AWS Regions Where CloudTrail Object-Level Logging for S3 Write Events Is Disabled

If logs are not enabled, monitoring of service use and threat analysis is not possible.

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This security check is part of the CIS Amazon Web Services Benchmarks and is rated severity low.

Prerequisites​

This guide assumes that you have already installed and configured Fix Inventory to collect your AWS resources.

Directions​

  1. Execute the following search command in Fix Inventory Shell:

    > search is(aws_region) with(empty, --> is(aws_cloud_trail) and trail_has_custom_event_selectors=true and trail_event_selectors[*].field_selectors.eventCategory.equals[*]=Data and trail_event_selectors[*].field_selectors.`resources.type`.equals[*]=AWS::S3::Object and trail_event_selectors[*].field_selectors.readOnly.equals[*]!="false")
    ​kind=aws_region, ..., region=fixinventory-poweruser
    ​kind=aws_region, ..., account=poweruser-team

  2. Pipe the search command into the dump command:

    > search is(aws_region) with(empty, --> is(aws_cloud_trail) and trail_has_custom_event_selectors=true and trail_event_selectors[*].field_selectors.eventCategory.equals[*]=Data and trail_event_selectors[*].field_selectors.`resources.type`.equals[*]=AWS::S3::Object and trail_event_selectors[*].field_selectors.readOnly.equals[*]!="false") | dump
    ​reported:
    ​  id: /aws/cloudtrail/123
    ​  name: some-name
    ​  ctime: '2022-12-05T22:53:14Z'
    ​  kind: aws_region
    ​  age: 2mo28d

    The command output will list the details of all non-compliant aws_region resources.

Remediation​

  • Enable logs.
  • Create an S3 lifecycle policy.
  • Define use cases, metrics and automated responses where applicable.
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Please refer to the AWS CloudTrail documentation for details.

Further Reading​