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DET-17: Audit trail stopped, deleted or narrowed

StopLogging, DeleteTrail, UpdateTrail or PutEventSelectors on a trail: someone may be blinding the logs these detections read.

Property Value
Severity high
Platform AWS Nitro Enclaves
Group cloud
Log source CloudTrail · CloudTrail
Related check CLOUDTRAIL-01: CloudTrail records enclave KMS and S3 operations

Fires when

eventName IN [StopLogging, DeleteTrail, UpdateTrail] AND trail covers the state-bucket data events

How it runs

untrust detect --platform nitro reads CloudTrail in the region you pass with --region, over the last --since minutes (default 60).

A match is a detection event with this rule's ID. Upload it to the console to alert on it; see Runtime detections.