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AWS Configuration Recorder Stopped

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AWS Configuration Recorder Stopped

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Identifies an AWS configuration change to stop recording a designated set of resources.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-aws*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 10 minutes

Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Monitoring

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Potential false positives

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Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Recording changes from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If a known behavior is causing false positives, it can be excluded from the rule.

Investigation guide

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The AWS Filebeat module must be enabled to use this rule.

Rule query

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event.action:StopConfigurationRecorder and
event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:config.amazonaws.com
and event.outcome:success

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: Disabling Security Tools
- ID: T1089
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1089/

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.10.0 release)

Formatting only

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