Ensure that all your AWS CloudTrail trails are configured to log Data events in order to record S3 object-level API operations, such as GetObject, DeleteObject and PutObject, for individual S3 buckets or for all current and future S3 buckets provisioned in your AWS account.
This rule can help you with the following compliance standards:
- APRA
- MAS
- NIST 800-53 (Rev. 4)
This rule can help you work with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
This rule resolution is part of the Cloud Conformity Security & Compliance tool for AWS
Enabling CloudTrail Data events logging will help you meet data compliance requirements within your organization, perform comprehensive security analysis, monitor specific patterns of user behavior in your AWS account or take immediate actions on any object-level API activity using Amazon CloudWatch Events.
Audit
To identify any trails that are missing the capability to log Data events, perform the following actions:
Remediation / Resolution
To enable Data events for all CloudTrail trails available within your AWS account, perform the following:
References
- AWS Documentation
- AWS CloudTrail FAQs
- Logging Data and Management Events for Trails
- Updating a Trail
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- cloudtrail
- describe-trails
- get-event-selectors
- put-event-selectors
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CloudTrail Data Events
Risk level: Low