Logging and monitoring

S3 Bucket Object-Level Logging for Write Events is Disabled

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks

AWS CIS, Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD), CCM-CSA, CCPA, cis_8, CPRA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices, GDPR, hdh, HITRUST, iso_27001_2022, iso_27002_2022, Mitre ATT&CK, New Zealand Information Security Manual, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, PDPA, UK Cyber Essentials

Description

S3 object-level API operations such as GetObject, DeleteObject, and PutObject are called data events. By default, CloudTrail trails don't log data events and so it is recommended to enable Object-level logging for S3 buckets.