Logging and monitoring

S3 Bucket Object-Level Logging for Write Events is Disabled

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