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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: 8 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

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 known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:config.amazonaws.com
and event.action:StopConfigurationRecorder 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: Impair Defenses
- ID: T1562
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/

Rule version history

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Version 8 (8.4.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 6 (7.13.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

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

Version 5 (7.12.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 4 (7.11.2 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.11.0 release)

Formatting only

Version 2 (7.10.0 release)

Formatting only

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