Ensure metric filters exist for IAM policy changes
CloudWatch metric filters should detect IAM policy changes which could indicate privilege escalation attempts.
Security Impact
Unmonitored IAM changes can allow attackers to grant themselves elevated privileges.
How to Remediate
Create metric filter for IAM policy events: CreatePolicy, DeletePolicy, CreatePolicyVersion, AttachUserPolicy, etc.
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-cloudtrail-19
- Service
- AWS CloudTrail
- Category
- Monitoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CIS Benchmark
- 4.4
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