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Your AWS CloudTrail trails should be configured to log Data events in order to record S3 object-level API operations, such as GetObject, DeleteObject and PutObject.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, NIST, ISO27001, AWSWAF

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the CloudTrail Must Log Data Events misconfiguration for AWS using the AWS console, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to the CloudTrail service.
  3. Select the trail that is not logging data events.
  4. Click on the “Edit” button.
  5. Scroll down to the “Data events” section.
  6. Click on the “Add data event” button.
  7. Select the AWS service(s) that you want to log data events for.
  8. Select the specific data events that you want to log.
  9. Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.

After completing these steps, CloudTrail will be configured to log data events for the selected AWS service(s) and specific data events.

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