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turbot/aws_cis

Pipeline: 4.6 Ensure AWS Management Console authentication failures are monitored

Description

Real-time monitoring of API calls can be achieved by directing CloudTrail Logs to CloudWatch Logs, or an external Security information and event management (SIEM) environment, and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms.

It is recommended that a metric filter and alarm be established for failed console authentication attempts.

CloudWatch is an AWS native service that allows you to observe and monitor resources and applications. CloudTrail Logs can also be sent to an external Security information and event management (SIEM) environment for monitoring and alerting.

Monitoring failed console logins may decrease lead time to detect an attempt to brute force a credential, which may provide an indicator, such as source IP address, that can be used in other event correlation.

Remediation

If you are using CloudTrails and CloudWatch, perform the following to setup the metric filter, alarm, SNS topic, and subscription:

  1. Create a metric filter based on filter pattern provided which checks for AWS management Console Login Failures and the <cloudtrail_log_group_name> taken from audit step 1.
aws logs put-metric-filter --log-group-name <cloudtrail_log_group_name> -- filter-name `<console_signin_failure_metric>` --metric-transformations metricName= `<console_signin_failure_metric>` ,metricNamespace='CISBenchmark',metricValue=1 --filter-pattern '{ ($.eventName = ConsoleLogin) && ($.errorMessage = "Failed authentication") }'

Note: You can choose your own metricName and metricNamespace strings. Using the same metricNamespace for all Foundations Benchmark metrics will group them together.

  1. Create an SNS topic that the alarm will notify
aws sns create-topic --name <sns_topic_name>

Note: you can execute this command once and then re-use the same topic for all monitoring alarms.

  1. Create an SNS subscription to the topic created in step 2
aws sns subscribe --topic-arn <sns_topic_arn> --protocol <protocol_for_sns> --notification-endpoint <sns_subscription_endpoints>

Note: you can execute this command once and then re-use the SNS subscription for all monitoring alarms.

  1. Create an alarm that is associated with the CloudWatch Logs Metric Filter created in step 1 and an SNS topic created in step 2
aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name
`<console_signin_failure_alarm>` --metric-name `<console_signin_failure_metric>` --statistic Sum --period 300 --threshold 1 --comparison-operator GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold --evaluation-periods 1 -- namespace 'CISBenchmark' --alarm-actions <sns_topic_arn>

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_4_6

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
pipeline = aws_cis.pipeline.cis_v400_4_6
}

Params

NameTypeRequiredDescriptionDefault
database
connection.steampipe
YesDatabase connection string.connection.steampipe.default
notifier
notifier
YesThe name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.notifier.default
notification_level
string
YesThe verbosity level of notification messages to send. Valid options are 'verbose', 'info', 'error'.info

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.

Tags

folder = CIS v4.0.0/4 Monitoring