CloudTrail logging disabled

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Id: 4bb76f17-3d63-4529-bdca-2b454529d774

Cloud Provider: aws

Framework: Terraform

Severity: Medium

Category: Observability

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Description

This check ensures that logging is enabled for AWS CloudTrail by verifying that the enable_logging attribute is set to true in the resource configuration. Disabling logging (enable_logging = false) prevents the capture of API activity in your AWS account, which can hinder threat detection, audit investigations, and incident response efforts. For security and compliance, CloudTrail logging should always be enabled, as shown below:

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "example" {
  name           = "example"
  s3_bucket_name = "bucketlog"
  enable_logging = true
}

Compliant Code Examples

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "negative1" {
  name                          = "negative_1"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog"
  enable_logging                = true
}

resource "aws_cloudtrail" "negative2" {
  name                          = "negative_2"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog"
}

Non-Compliant Code Examples

#this is a problematic code where the query should report a result(s)
resource "aws_cloudtrail" "positive1" {
  name                          = "positive"
  s3_bucket_name                = "bucketlog"
  enable_logging                = false
}