Log files Should Be Delivered Without Any Failures

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The log files generated by your AWS CloudTrail trails should be delivered without any failures to designated recipients in order to keep CloudTrail logging data for security and compliance audits.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Reliability, Operational Maturity, Security

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

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Using CLI

To remediate the misconfiguration “Log files Should Be Delivered Without Any Failures” in AWS, you can follow the below steps using AWS CLI:

Open the AWS CLI on your local machine or terminal.
Run the following command to create a new S3 bucket to store the logs:
```
aws s3api create-bucket --bucket <bucket-name> --region <region> --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=<region>
```
Replace <bucket-name> with your desired bucket name and <region> with the region in which you want to create the bucket.

Run the following command to enable access logging for your S3 bucket:

aws s3api put-bucket-acl --bucket <bucket-name> --grant-read uri=http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/s3/LogDelivery --grant-write uri=http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/s3/LogDelivery --grant-read-acp uri=http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/s3/LogDelivery --grant-write-acp uri=http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/s3/LogDelivery --grant-full-control uri=http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/s3/LogDelivery

Replace <bucket-name> with the name of the bucket you created in step 2.

Run the following command to create a new CloudWatch Logs group:
```
aws logs create-log-group --log-group-name <log-group-name>
```
Replace <log-group-name> with your desired name for the log group.
Run the following command to create a new CloudWatch Logs stream:
```
aws logs create-log-stream --log-group-name <log-group-name> --log-stream-name <log-stream-name>
```
Replace <log-group-name> with the name of the log group you created in step 4 and <log-stream-name> with your desired name for the log stream.
Run the following command to create a new CloudWatch Logs subscription filter:
```
aws logs put-subscription-filter --log-group-name <log-group-name> --filter-name <filter-name> --filter-pattern "" --destination-arn arn:aws:s3:::<bucket-name>
```
Replace <log-group-name> with the name of the log group you created in step 4, <filter-name> with your desired name for the filter, and <bucket-name> with the name of the S3 bucket you created in step 2.
Verify that the logs are being delivered to the S3 bucket by checking the contents of the bucket. You should see log files being created and updated in real-time.

By following these steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration “Log files Should Be Delivered Without Any Failures” in AWS using AWS CLI.

Using Python

To remediate the misconfiguration “Log files Should Be Delivered Without Any Failures” for AWS using Python, you can follow these steps:Step 1: Create an S3 bucket to store the log files.

import boto3

s3 = boto3.client('s3')

bucket_name = 'your-bucket-name'

s3.create_bucket(Bucket=bucket_name)

Step 2: Create an IAM role with permissions to write to the S3 bucket.

import boto3

iam = boto3.client('iam')

role_name = 'your-role-name'

assume_role_policy_document = {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "Service": "logs.amazonaws.com"
            },
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
        }
    ]
}

response = iam.create_role(
    RoleName=role_name,
    AssumeRolePolicyDocument=json.dumps(assume_role_policy_document)
)

policy_document = {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

iam.put_role_policy(
    RoleName=role_name,
    PolicyName='your-policy-name',
    PolicyDocument=json.dumps(policy_document)
)

Step 3: Create a CloudWatch Logs subscription filter to deliver the log files to the S3 bucket.

import boto3

logs = boto3.client('logs')

log_group_name = 'your-log-group-name'
filter_name = 'your-filter-name'
destination_arn = 'arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name'

response = logs.put_subscription_filter(
    logGroupName=log_group_name,
    filterName=filter_name,
    filterPattern='',
    destinationArn=destination_arn,
    roleArn='arn:aws:iam::your-account-id:role/your-role-name'
)

Note: Replace the placeholders (your-bucket-name, your-role-name, your-policy-name, your-log-group-name, your-filter-name, and your-account-id) with your own values.These steps will remediate the misconfiguration “Log files Should Be Delivered Without Any Failures” for AWS using Python.

Additional Reading:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-log-file-validation-cli.html

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