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AWS CloudTrail log monitoring with Log360

ManageEngine Log360 provides centralized monitoring, analysis, and threat detection for AWS CloudTrail logs. CloudTrail captures all activity across AWS services, from user authentication events to resource modifications. By ingesting, correlating, and analyzing these logs, Log360 delivers crucial visibility into user actions, security risks, and security violations, ensuring your AWS infrastructure remains secure and compliant.

How Log360 collects and analyzes AWS CloudTrail logs

Log360 integrates natively with AWS to securely and automatically collect CloudTrail logs for centralized monitoring. Log360 connects to your AWS account via IAM user access key and secret key and fetches CloudTrail logs from the S3 bucket where they are stored. This agentless, cloud-native collection method ensures real-time log ingestion without requiring additional setup or software installation.

Once collected, Log360 parses and enriches the logs, transforming raw API events into structured, actionable insights that are displayed through intuitive dashboards and reports. This enables quick insights into who performed what action, when, where, and how, across all your AWS accounts and regions.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 continuously analyzes CloudTrail logs to deliver real-time visibility and security insights, including:

Event correlation across AWS and on-prem infrastructure.
Real-time alerts for suspicious activities such as root account usage or unauthorized changes.
Custom dashboards to track API usage, privilege changes, and authentication trends.
Immutable audit trails to support incident response and regulatory audits.

Critical AWS CloudTrail events monitored

Log360 tracks key CloudTrail events that impact the security and governance of your AWS environment, including:

Console and programmatic logins, including failed logon attempts.
IAM role assumptions and privilege escalations.
Resource lifecycle events like creation, modification, and deletion of EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Route 53, IAM, and more.
Policy and permission changes.
MFA activity and root account usage.
Cross-account access and API calls from unusual geo-locations.

Key benefits

Comprehensive visibility: Monitor all user and service-level activity across your AWS environment.
Threat detection: Instantly detect unauthorized access, abnormal behavior, or privilege abuse using built-in correlation and alerting.
Detailed forensic auditing: Maintain a tamper-proof log trail to investigate security incidents.
Cloud compliance: Generate audit-ready reports aligned with PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and other compliance mandates.
Seamless correlation: Link CloudTrail activity with other AWS logs (S3, EC2, VPC) and on-premise data to detect complex threats.

Address key AWS CloudTrail security challenges with Log360

Challenges	Solution offered by Log360
Detecting unauthorized activity	Monitors all activities and alerts on high-risk actions, such as root usage or changes to IAM roles.
Tracking changes to sensitive resources	Audits resource changes including EC2, IAM, S3, and security group configurations.
Identifying privilege escalation	Detects and alerts on role assumptions, policy attachments, and group membership changes.
Investigating failed access attempts	Provides context-rich audit trails of failed logins and access denials to help pinpoint misconfigurations or attacks.
Meeting compliance requirements	Offers prebuilt compliance reports for CloudTrail logs aligned with major regulatory standards.