📝 AWS CloudTrail AWS Organizations Changes Monitoring is not enabled 🟢
- Contextual name: 📝 AWS Organizations Changes Monitoring is not enabled 🟢
- ID:
/ce/ca/aws/cloudtrail/aws-organizations-changes-monitoring - Located in: 📁 AWS CloudTrail
Flags
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- Policy Type:
COMPLIANCE_POLICY - Policy Category:
SECURITY
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Description
Description
Real-time monitoring of API calls can be achieved by directing CloudTrail Logs to CloudWatch Logs or an external Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment, and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms.
It is recommended that a metric filter and alarm be established for changes made to AWS Organizations in the master AWS account.
Rationale
CloudWatch is an AWS native service that allows you to observe and monitor resources and applications. CloudTrail Logs can also be sent to an external Security information and event management (SIEM) environment for monitoring and alerting.
Monitoring AWS Organizations changes can help you prevent any unwanted, accidental or intentional modifications that may lead to unauthorized access or other security breaches. This monitoring technique helps you to ensure that any unexpected changes performed within your AWS Organizations can be investigated and any unwanted changes can be rolled back.
Audit
If you are using CloudTrails and CloudWatch, perform the following:
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Remediation
Remediation
If you are using CloudTrails and CloudWatch, perform the following to setup the metric filter, alarm, SNS topic, and subscription:
- Create a metric filter based on filter pattern provided which checks for AWS Organizations changes and the
<cloudtrail_log_group_name>taken from audit step 1:aws logs put-metric-filter --log-group-name <cloudtrail_log_group_name> --filter-name <organizations_changes> --metric-transformations metricName=<organizations_changes>, metricNamespace='CISBenchmark', metricValue=1 --filter-pattern '{ ($.eventSource = organizations.amazonaws.com) && (($.eventName = "AcceptHandshake") || ($.eventName = "AttachPolicy") || ($.eventName = "CreateAccount") || ($.eventName = "CreateOrganizationalUnit") || ($.eventName = "CreatePolicy") || ($.eventName = "DeclineHandshake") || ($.eventName = "DeleteOrganization") || ($.eventName = "DeleteOrganizationalUnit") || ($.eventName = "DeletePolicy") || ($.eventName = "DetachPolicy") || ($.eventName = "DisablePolicyType") || ($.eventName = "EnablePolicyType") || ($.eventName = "InviteAccountToOrganization") || ($.eventName = "LeaveOrganization") || ($.eventName = "MoveAccount") || ($.eventName = "RemoveAccountFromOrganization") || ($.eventName = "UpdatePolicy") || ($.eventName = "UpdateOrganizationalUnit")) }'
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