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DET-22: Enclave host disk imaged or snapshotted

CreateImage, CreateSnapshot or CreateSnapshots captured the enclave host's volumes. The host disk holds the bootstrap state, so an image or snapshot lifts it out of the instance's access controls (and can then be shared out).

Property Value
Severity high
Platform AWS Nitro Enclaves
Group cloud
Log source CloudTrail · EC2
Related check BOOTSTRAP-02: S3 bucket write scope

Fires when

eventName IN [CreateImage, CreateSnapshot, CreateSnapshots] AND volume/instance == enclave_host

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.