New – AWS CloudTrail Lake Helps Ingesting Exercise Occasions From Non-AWS Sources

In November 2013, we introduced AWS CloudTrail to trace person exercise and API utilization. AWS CloudTrail permits auditing, safety monitoring, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail information person exercise and API calls throughout AWS companies as occasions. CloudTrail occasions make it easier to reply the questions of “who did what, the place, and when?”.

Just lately we have now improved the flexibility so that you can simplify your auditing and safety evaluation by utilizing AWS CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail Lake is a managed information lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing person and API exercise on AWS for audit, safety, and operational functions. You may combination and immutably retailer your exercise occasions, and run SQL-based queries for search and evaluation.

We’ve heard your suggestions that aggregating exercise info from numerous purposes throughout hybrid environments is advanced and dear, however essential for a complete image of your group’s safety and compliance posture.

Right this moment we’re asserting assist of ingestion for exercise occasions from non-AWS sources utilizing CloudTrail Lake, making it a single location of immutable person and API exercise occasions for auditing and safety investigations. Now you’ll be able to consolidate, immutably retailer, search, and analyze exercise occasions from AWS and non-AWS sources, resembling in-house or SaaS purposes, in a single place.

Utilizing the brand new PutAuditEvents API in CloudTrail Lake, you’ll be able to centralize person exercise info from disparate sources into CloudTrail Lake, enabling you to investigate, troubleshoot and diagnose points utilizing this information. CloudTrail Lake information all occasions in standardized schema, making it simpler for customers to eat this info to comprehensively and rapidly reply to safety incidents or audit requests.

CloudTrail Lake can be built-in with chosen AWS Companions, resembling Cloud Storage Safety, Clumio, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, GitHub, Kong Inc, LaunchDarkly, MontyCloud, Netskope, Nordcloud, Okta, One Identification, Shoreline.io, Snyk, and Wiz, permitting you to simply allow audit logging via the CloudTrail console.

Getting Began to Combine Exterior Sources
You can begin to ingest exercise occasions from your individual information sources or accomplice purposes by selecting Integrations beneath the Lake menu within the AWS CloudTrail console.

To create a brand new integration, select Add integration and enter your channel title. You may select the accomplice software supply from which you wish to get occasions. In case you’re integrating with occasions from your individual purposes hosted on-premises or within the cloud, select My customized integration.

For Occasion supply location, you’ll be able to select locations on your occasions from this integration. This permits your software or companions to ship occasions to your occasion information retailer of CloudTrail Lake. An occasion information retailer can retain your exercise occasions for every week to as much as seven years. Then you’ll be able to run queries on the occasion information retailer.

Select both Use present occasion information shops or Create new occasion information retailer—to obtain occasions from integrations. To be taught extra about occasion information retailer, see Create an occasion information retailer within the AWS documentation.

It’s also possible to arrange the permissions coverage for the channel useful resource created with this integration. The data required for the coverage depends on the mixing sort of every accomplice purposes.

There are two kinds of integrations: direct and resolution. With direct integrations, the accomplice calls the PutAuditEvents API to ship occasions to the occasion information retailer on your AWS account. On this case, it’s good to present Exterior ID, the distinctive account identifier offered by the accomplice. You may see a hyperlink to accomplice web site for the step-by-step information. With resolution integrations, the applying runs in your AWS account and the applying calls the PutAuditEvents API to ship occasions to the occasion information retailer on your AWS account.

To seek out the Integration sort on your accomplice, select the Out there sources tab from the integrations web page.

After creating an integration, you’ll need to supply this Channel ARN to the supply or accomplice software. Till these steps are completed, the standing will stay as incomplete. As soon as CloudTrail Lake begins receiving occasions for the built-in accomplice or software, the standing subject shall be up to date to replicate the present state.

To ingest your software’s exercise occasions into your integration, name the PutAuditEvents API so as to add the payload of occasions. Make certain that there isn’t a delicate or personally figuring out info within the occasion payload earlier than ingesting it into CloudTrail Lake.

You can also make a JSON array of occasion objects, which features a required user-generated ID from the occasion, the required payload of the occasion as the worth of EventData, and an elective checksum to assist validate the integrity of the occasion after ingestion into CloudTrail Lake.


  "AuditEvents": [
     
      "Id": "event_ID",
      "EventData": "event_payload", "EventDataChecksum": "optional_checksum",
     ,
   ... ]

The next instance exhibits the best way to use the put-audit-events AWS CLI command.

$ aws cloudtrail-data put-audit-events 
--channel-arn $ChannelArn 
--external-id $UniqueExternalIDFromPartner 
--audit-events 

  "Id": "87f22433-0f1f-4a85-9664-d50a3545baef",
  "EventData":""eventVersion":.01","eventSource":"MyCustomLog2", ...",
,

  "Id": "7e5966e7-a999-486d-b241-b33a1671aa74",
  "EventData":""eventVersion":.02","eventSource":"MyCustomLog1", ...",
"EventDataChecksum":"848df986e7dd61f3eadb3ae278e61272xxxx",

On the Editor tab within the CloudTrail Lake, write your individual queries for a brand new built-in occasion information retailer to examine delivered occasions.

You can also make your individual integration question, like getting all principals throughout AWS and exterior sources which have made API calls after a specific date:

SELECT userIdentity.principalId FROM $AWS_EVENT_DATA_STORE_ID 
WHERE eventTime > '2022-09-24 00:00:00'
UNION ALL
SELECT eventData.userIdentity.principalId FROM $PARTNER_EVENT_DATA_STORE_ID
WHRERE eventData.eventTime > '2022-09-24 00:00:00'

To be taught extra, see CloudTrail Lake occasion schema and pattern queries that can assist you get began.

Launch Companions
You may see the checklist of our launch companions to assist a CloudTrail Lake integration possibility within the Out there sources tab. Listed here are weblog posts and bulletins from our companions who collaborated on this launch (some shall be added within the subsequent few days).

Now Out there
AWS CloudTrail Lake now helps ingesting exercise occasions from exterior sources in all AWS Areas the place CloudTrail Lake is obtainable in the present day. To be taught extra, see the AWS documentation and every accomplice’s getting began guides.

In case you are fascinated with turning into an AWS CloudTrail Companion, you’ll be able to contact your standard accomplice contacts.

– Channy