Require Unauthorised Api Call Alarm

LOW
Source
Trivy
Frameworks

CIS AWS 1.2

CIS AWS 1.4

ID
AVD-AWS-0147

Ensure a log metric filter and alarm exist for unauthorized API calls

You can do real-time monitoring of API calls by directing CloudTrail logs to CloudWatch Logs and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms. You can have more than one VPC in an account, and you can create a peer connection between two VPCs, enabling network traffic to route between VPCs.

CIS recommends that you create a metric filter and alarm for changes to VPCs. Monitoring these changes helps ensure that authentication and authorization controls remain intact.

Impact

Unauthorized API Calls may be attempted without being notified. CloudTrail logs these actions but without the alarm you aren’t actively notified.