AWS-011 Amazon Web Services (AWS)

CloudTrail log-file validation is enabled.

CloudTrail log-file validation is enabled.

Domain
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Area
Logging
Automated / manual
Automated

Risk if it fails

Tampered logs can hide an intrusion.

If logs can be silently edited, an attacker can delete the evidence of their break-in, leaving investigators with a clean but false record.

How Tess tests it

1 test — each concludes only on cited evidence.

CloudTrail log-file validation is enabled.

Automated
Procedure
Confirm LogFileValidationEnabled=true on each trail.

Read-only command 

aws cloudtrail describe-trails --query 'trailList[].{Name:Name,Validation:LogFileValidationEnabled}'

More in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS-001 Root account MFA is enabled. AWS-002 No access keys exist on the root account. AWS-003 Root account is not used for day-to-day activity. AWS-004 Strong IAM password policy is enforced.

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