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Traceability with CloudTrail and Security Hub - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Essential Training for Developers
Traceability with CloudTrail and Security Hub
- Sometimes, problems with hacking and data breaches don't always originate outside the shields to your AWS starship. You've got a good crew, but that green guy you picked up at the last star base has been seen poking around areas of the ship you aren't sure he should be in. CloudTrail is an audit trail of changes made internally to your AWS starship. It can also log requests coming in through the AWS API and let you know if somebody's made off with your AWS access keys and is using them for the wrong purposes. Not to sound too paranoid here, but these are always things that happen when we aren't looking and when you least suspect them. CloudTrail can be used to trace back in time what someone was doing in your AWS account and what changes were made. Now, I hope you never have to use this, but for applications that store and manage highly sensitive data that's regulated by compliance standards, it's probably wise to…
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