Collect AWS Key Management Service logs

This document explains how to ingest AWS Key Management Service (KMS) logs to Google Security Operations. AWS KMS is a fully managed service that lets you to create and control encryption keys used to encrypt your data. This integration helps in monitoring and auditing the usage of encryption keys.

Before you begin

Ensure you have the following prerequisites:

• Google SecOps instance
• Privileged access to AWS

Configure Amazon S3 and IAM

1. Create an Amazon S3 bucket following this user guide: Creating a bucket
2. Save the bucket Name and Region for later use.
3. Create a user following this user guide: Creating an IAM user.
4. Select the created User.
5. Select the Security credentials tab.
6. Click Create Access Key in the Access Keys section.
7. Select Third-party service as the Use case.
8. Click Next.
9. Optional: add a description tag.
10. Click Create access key.
11. Click Download CSV file to save the Access Key and Secret Access Key for later use.
12. Click Done.
13. Select the Permissions tab.
14. Click Add permissions in the Permissions policies section.
15. Select Add permissions.
16. Select Attach policies directly.
17. Search for and select the AmazonS3FullAccess policy.
18. Click Next.
19. Click Add permissions.

How to configure CloudTrail for AWS KMS

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
2. In the search bar, type and select CloudTrail from the services list.
3. Click Create trail.
4. Provide a Trail name (for example, KMS-Activity-Trail).
5. Select the Enable for all accounts in my organization checkbox.
6. Type the S3 bucket URI created earlier (the format should be: s3://your-log-bucket-name/), or create a new S3 bucket.
7. If SSE-KMS enabled, provide a name for AWS KMS alias, or choose an existing AWS KMS Key.
8. You can leave the other settings as default.
9. Click Next.
10. Select Management events and Data events under Event Types.
11. Click Next.
12. Review the settings in Review and create.
13. Click Create trail.
14. Optional: if you created a new bucket, continue with the following process:
    1. Go to S3.
    2. Identify and select the newly created log bucket.
    3. Select the folder AWSLogs.
    4. Click Copy S3 URI and save it.

Set up feeds

There are two different entry points to set up feeds in the Google SecOps platform:

• SIEM Settings > Feeds > Add New
• Content Hub > Content Packs > Get Started

How to set up the AWS Key Management Service feed

1. Click the Amazon Cloud Platform pack.
2. Locate the AWS Key Management Service log type.

3. Specify the values in the following fields.

   • Source Type: Amazon SQS V2
   • Queue Name: The SQS queue name to read from
   • S3 URI: The bucket URI.
     • s3://your-log-bucket-name/
       • Replace your-log-bucket-name with the actual name of your S3 bucket.

   • Source deletion options: Select the deletion option according to your ingestion preferences.

   • Maximum File Age: Include files modified in the last number of days. Default is 180 days.

   • SQS Queue Access Key ID: An account access key that is a 20-character alphanumeric string.

   • SQS Queue Secret Access Key: An account access key that is a 40-character alphanumeric string.

   Advanced options

   • Feed Name: A prepopulated value that identifies the feed.
   • Asset Namespace: Namespace associated with the feed.
   • Ingestion Labels: Labels applied to all events from this feed.

4. Click Create feed.

For more information about configuring multiple feeds for different log types within this product family, see Configure feeds by product.

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