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How to Find AWS CloudTrail with logging disabled

Problem​

Sending CloudTrail logs to CloudWatch Logs will facilitate real-time and historic activity logging based on user, API, resource, and IP address, and provides opportunity to establish alarms and notifications for anomalous or sensitivity account activity.

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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 Resoto to collect your AWS cloud resources.

Directions​

  1. Execute the following search command in Resoto Shell or Resoto UI:

    > search is(aws_cloud_trail) and trail_status.is_logging==false
    ​kind=aws_cloud_trail, ..., region=resoto-poweruser
    ​kind=aws_cloud_trail, ..., account=poweruser-team

  2. Pipe the search command into the dump command:

    > search is(aws_cloud_trail) and trail_status.is_logging==false | dump
    ​reported:
    ​  id: /aws/cloudtrail/123
    ​  name: some-name
    ​  ctime: '2022-12-05T22:53:14Z'
    ​  kind: aws_cloud_trail
    ​  age: 2mo28d

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

  3. Fix detected issues by following the remediation steps:

    Validate that the trails in CloudTrail has an arn set in the CloudWatchLogsLogGroupArn property.

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    Please refer to the AWS CloudTrail documentation for details.

Further Reading​