ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An e-commerce company ingests VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail events, and application server logs into a dedicated Amazon S3 bucket. An internal audit states that the security team must be able to demonstrate that no one, including administrators, can modify or delete log files for one year and must be able to detect any attempted tampering. The team wants a native, low-maintenance AWS solution. Which action will meet these requirements?
Enable bucket versioning and configure cross-region replication to a secondary S3 bucket.
Stream all logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and set the retention period to Never Expire.
Encrypt the log bucket with server-side encryption using an AWS KMS customer-managed key that is rotated annually.
Turn on S3 Object Lock in Compliance mode for the log bucket and enable CloudTrail log file integrity validation.
Amazon S3 Object Lock in Compliance mode enforces write-once-read-many (WORM) protection, preventing any user-root or otherwise-from altering or deleting objects until the retention period expires, satisfying the non-repudiation requirement. Enabling CloudTrail log file validation adds a signed hash chain to each log file so any post-delivery alteration can be cryptographically detected. Versioning, replication, or encryption add resiliency and confidentiality but do not make logs immutable or provide proof of integrity. Simply storing logs in CloudWatch Logs offers retention but does not prevent tampering or supply cryptographic validation.
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