AWS EC2 Encryption Disablededit

Identifies disabling of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption by default in the current region. Disabling encryption by default does not change the encryption status of your existing volumes.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-aws*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 10 minutes

Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • AWS
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Data Protection

Version: 8 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positivesedit

Disabling encryption may be done by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Disabling encryption by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guideedit


Rule queryedit

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:ec2.amazonaws.com and
event.action:DisableEbsEncryptionByDefault and event.outcome:success

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 8 (8.4.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 6 (7.13.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.action:DisableEbsEncryptionByDefault and
    event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:ec2.amazonaws.com and
    event.outcome:success
Version 5 (7.12.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 4 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.11.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 2 (7.10.0 release)
  • Formatting only