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How do you analyze CloudTrail logs?

Search your logs into Athena. The CloudTrail logging location is fairly easy to find or enable in the console. Or, run aws cloudtrail describe-trails and it will reveal the S3 buckets being logged to. If IncludeGlobalServiceEvents is true , the CloudTrail bucket will include logs for all regions.

What events does CloudTrail log?

There are three types of events that can be logged in CloudTrail: management events, data events, and CloudTrail Insights events. By default, trails log management events, but not data or Insights events. All event types use a CloudTrail JSON log format. CloudTrail does not log all AWS services and all events.

What needs to be done to encrypt CloudTrail logs?

To enable SSE-KMS encryption for CloudTrail log files, perform the following high-level steps:

  1. Create a KMS key.
  2. Add policy sections to the key that enable CloudTrail to encrypt and users to decrypt log files.
  3. Update your trail to use the KMS key whose policy you modified for CloudTrail.

How can you protect your CloudTrail logs from unauthorized access?

CloudTrail detective security best practices

  1. Create a trail.
  2. Apply trails to all AWS Regions.
  3. Enable CloudTrail log file integrity.
  4. Integrate with Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
  5. Log to a dedicated and centralized Amazon S3 bucket.
  6. Use server-side encryption with AWS KMS managed keys.

How do I monitor my CloudTrail?

Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs

  1. Configure your trail to send log events to CloudWatch Logs.
  2. Define CloudWatch Logs metric filters to evaluate log events for matches in terms, phrases, or values.
  3. Assign CloudWatch metrics to the metric filters.

Can you disable CloudTrail?

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudTrail console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/ . In the navigation pane, choose Trails, and then choose the name of the trail. At the top of the trail details page, choose Stop logging to turn off logging for the trail.

Is CloudTrail real time?

Streaming log delivery With this approach, CloudTrail audit events will be delivered in real-time via CloudWatch Logs as soon as they become available instead of delivered in batches.

Can you edit CloudTrail?

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudTrail console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/ . In the navigation pane, choose Trails, and then choose a trail name. In General details, choose Edit to change the following settings. You cannot change the name of a trail.

How do you detect and investigate security events?

Evaluate and enable logging of operating systems and application-specific: Evaluate and enable logging of operating systems and application-specific logs to detect suspicious behavior. Apply appropriate controls to the logs: Logs can contain sensitive information and only authorized users should have access.

What type of security control is an audit trail?

Audit trails are a type of detective control. An audit trail logs events as they occur, including details on who, what, when, and where. After an incident has occurred, these logs can be examined to re-create the events.

How can I track IAM user activity?

Open the CloudTrail console, and choose Event history. In Filter, select the dropdown menu, and choose User name. Note: You can also filter by AWS access key. In the Enter user or role name text box, enter the IAM user-friendly name or the assumed role session name.

What are cloudtrail logs and where are they stored?

CloudTrail logs include details about any API calls made to your AWS services, including the console. CloudTrail generates encrypted log files and stores them in Amazon S3. For more information, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

How do I view my cloudtrail logs in CloudWatch?

Review the AWS CloudTrail Service Level Agreement for more information. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ . Choose Logs . Choose the log group that you specified for your trail. Choose the log stream name. To see the details of the event that your trail logged, choose an event.

How do I query cloudtrail log files using Athena?

You can use Athena to query these log files directly from Amazon S3, specifying the LOCATION of log files. You can do this one of two ways: By creating tables for CloudTrail log files directly from the CloudTrail console. By manually creating tables for CloudTrail log files in the Athena console.

How do I collect cloudtrail logs and save to Amazon S3?

To collect logs and save them to Amazon S3, enable CloudTrail from the AWS Management Console. For more information, see Creating a Trail in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide . Note the destination Amazon S3 bucket where you save the logs.

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