Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: Simple Storage Service (S3)
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.LOG.12
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Storage

GSL LOGIC

S3Bucket should have logging.enabled=true

REMEDIATION

From Portal

Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/.
Open the Amazon S3 console.
Navigate to the Bucket name list.
To enable server access logging for a bucket, select the name of the bucket.
Click Properties.
Click Server access logging. For the target, select the name of the bucket that you want to receive the log record objects.
Click Enable Logging.
Note: The target bucket must be in the same Region as the source bucket and must not have a default retention period configuration.

From TF

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "example_bucket" {
	bucket = "example-bucket"
	logging {
		target_bucket = "s3_bucket_id"
		target_prefix = "log/"
	}
	other required fields here
}

From Command Line

Run the following to check Bucket logging status.

aws s3api get-bucket-logging --bucket S3_BUCKET

Run the following command to enable logging.

aws s3api put-bucket-logging --bucket S3_BUCKET --bucket-logging-status file://logging.json

Note: Logging.json is a JSON document in the current folder that contains the logging policy

References

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Companies today need the ability to simply and securely collect, store, and analyze their data at a massive scale. Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere — web sites and mobile apps, corporate applications, and data from IoT sensors or devices. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and stores data for millions of applications used by market leaders in every indu

Compliance Frameworks

AWS CSA CCM v.3.0.1
AWS CSA CCM v.4.0.1
AWS CloudGuard Best Practices
AWS CloudGuard S3 Bucket Security
AWS CloudGuard SOC2 based on AICPA TSC 2017
AWS CloudGuard Well Architected Framework
AWS GDPR Readiness
AWS HIPAA
AWS HITRUST
AWS HITRUST v11.0.0
AWS ISO 27001:2013
AWS ISO27001:2022
AWS ITSG-33
AWS LGPD regulation
AWS MAS TRM Framework
AWS MITRE ATT&CK Framework v10
AWS MITRE ATT&CK Framework v11.3
AWS NIST 800-171
AWS NIST 800-53 Rev 4
AWS NIST 800-53 Rev 5
AWS NIST CSF v1.1
AWS PCI-DSS 3.2
AWS PCI-DSS 4.0
CloudGuard AWS All Rules Ruleset
CloudGuard AWS Dashboards