05 - EKS Enable Authenticator Logging

Ensure EKS Cluster has Authenticator logging enabled

Authenticator logging is crucial to have enabled in order have full insight into who has interacted or made changes with the Kubernetes cluster via the api. For this reason having audit logging enabled is considered a security best practice to and should be enabled. Ensuring this is enabled will help you with PCI-DSS, HIPPA and GDPR compliance.

Audit & Remediation

Login into your AWS account
Navigate to the ECS service at: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs
On the left hand panel select Clusters under Amazon EKS.

Select the EKS cluster in order to go into the Cluster configuration page.
Select the Logging tab and see if the Authenticator is currently set to Enabled under the Control Plane Logging section.

Select the buttonManage Logging button.
Select Authenticator and move to Enabled

Repeat the outlined steps for each region that you have ECR repositories in.
Repeat the outlined steps for each AWS account that you have.

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