HIGH

Ensure management events are logged

CloudTrail should log management events (control plane operations) for all AWS services to capture API activity.

Security Impact

Missing management events leaves gaps in audit trails for critical operations like resource creation and deletion.

How to Remediate

Configure event selectors to include management events: ReadWriteType set to All for comprehensive logging.

Affected Resources

AWS::CloudTrail::Trail

Compliance Frameworks

SOC 2PCI-DSSHIPAANIST 800-53FedRAMP

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Check Details

Check ID
aws-cloudtrail-8
Service
AWS CloudTrail
Category
Logging
Severity
HIGH

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