turbot/aws_compliance
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Control: Ensure a log metric filter and alarm exist for security group changes

Description

You can do real-time monitoring of API calls by directing CloudTrail logs to CloudWatch Logs and establishing corresponding metric filters and alarms. Security groups are a stateful packet filter that controls ingress and egress traffic in a VPC. Security Hub recommends that you create a metric filter and alarm for changes to security groups. Monitoring these changes helps ensure that resources and services aren't unintentionally exposed.

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run aws_compliance.control.log_metric_filter_security_group

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run aws_compliance.control.log_metric_filter_security_group --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

log_metric_filter_security_group

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