AWS CloudTrail Lake

The AWS CloudTrail Lake integration allows you to forward Snyk audit logs to AWS CloudTrail Lake, which lets you run SQL-based queries on your logs and retain them for up to seven (7) years.

This integration can be configured to forward audit logs for a single Snyk organization, or for a Snyk group and all of its child organizations. In either case, there are two steps required to set up the integration:

1. Add a Snyk integration in AWS CloudTrail Lake.

2. Configure the integration in Snyk.

Group-level vs. organization-level audit logs

Audit logs are captured when Snyk users perform actions on the Snyk platform, like making changes to settings, adding other users, or accessing protected APIs. When setting up this integration, it is important to understand how audit logs are captured depending on how a customer's Snyk account is set up:

• For customers using Snyk with a single Snyk organization (or with multiple disconnected organizations), all audit logs are captured within the scope of the single organization.

• For customers who have a Snyk group with child organizations, actions such as adding new organizations to the group or adding users to the group are audited at the group level, and are not typically associated with an organization.

This integration supports both use cases:

1. Integrate CloudTrail Lake with a single Snyk Organization

   1. All audit logs associated directly with that organization will be sent to CloudTrail Lake.

   2. If the organization has a parent group, actions taken on that group are not sent to CloudTrail Lake.

   3. If the organization has members which are also members of other organizations/groups, actions taken by those members will only be sent to CloudTrail Lake if they are directly associated with the organization.

2. Integrate CloudTrail Lake with a Snyk group and all of its child organizations

   1. All audit logs associated with the group or any of its child organizations will be sent to CloudTrail Lake.

   2. When new organizations are added to the group, audit logs for those organizations will automatically be sent to CloudTrail Lake.

Add a Snyk integration in AWS CloudTrail Lake

To get started setting up a CloudTrail Lake integration, whether for a group or a single organization, follow the setup instructions in the AWS CloudTrail Lake documentation, choosing Snyk as the integration type.

During the setup, you will need to supply an External ID for the integration. The value for this ID will depend on whether you are setting up the integration for a single Snyk organization, or for a Snyk group (which includes all child organizations).

External ID for a Single Snyk Organization

If you are creating this integration for a single Snyk organization, you will use your Snyk Organization ID as the External ID. You can find your organization ID by going to the Snyk organization settings page.

Copy the value in the Organization ID field to the External ID field in the AWS CloudTrail Lake integration setup and continue following the instructions in the AWS CloudTrail Lake documentation.

External ID for a Snyk group

If you are setting up this organization for a Snyk group (which will automatically include all child organizations), you will use your Snyk Group ID as the External ID. You can find your group ID by clicking on the name of your Snyk group in the Snyk dashboard, then navigating to the Settings page.

Copy the value in the Group ID field to the External ID field in the AWS CloudTrail Lake integration setup and continue following the instructions in the AWS CloudTrail Lake documentation.

CloudTrail Lake Channel ARN

When you are done creating the Snyk integration in AWS CloudTrail Lake, copy the Channel ARN that is displayed on the integration page. You will need this for the next step.

Configure the integration in Snyk (single organization)

After creating the integration in AWS CloudTrail Lake, you can complete the setup in the Snyk dashboard.

To do this, go to the Snyk integrations page, navigate to Cloud events, and click the AWS CloudTrail Lake tile:

Enter a name for this integration, your AWS Account ID, and the Channel ARN from the previous step.

Once this step is complete, Snyk will begin forwarding audit logs to AWS CloudTrail Lake immediately. You can click View settings or go to the AWS CloudTrail Lake settings page to view and manage the integration.

Configure the integration in Snyk (Snyk group and child organizations)

To complete setup of the integration for a Snyk group, you will need to use the Create a group registration endpoint in the Snyk REST API. You can learn general information about how to use the REST API here.

You can use this sample request as a starting point:

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.snyk.io/rest/groups/<YOUR GROUP ID>/cloud_events/group_registrations?version=2023-01-25~experimental' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
--header 'Authorization: token <YOUR SNYK API TOKEN>' \
--data-raw '{
    "data": {
        "type": "group_registration",
        "attributes": {
            "type": "aws-cloudtrail",
            "name": "<NAME YOUR INTEGRATION>",
            "config": {
                "account_id": "<YOUR AWS ACCOUNT ID>",
                "channel_arn": "<CHANNEL ARN FROM PREVIOUS STEP>"
            }
        }
    }
}'

Be sure to replace each indicated placeholder value in the example appropriately:

• <YOUR GROUP ID> - the Snyk Group ID you used in the previous step as the External ID

• <YOUR SNYK API TOKEN> - your personal Snyk API token, which you can find in the Snyk dashboard under Account settings

• <NAME YOUR INTEGRATION> - a name for this integration

• <YOUR AWS ACCOUNT ID> - the AWS account ID for the AWS account form the previous step.

• <CHANNEL ARN FROM PREVIOUS STEP> - the Channel ARN generated in the previous step when you added the Snyk integration in the CloudTrail Lake console.

If successful, the API response will include an id for the registration. You can use this ID to manage and delete the integration later.

Remove an AWS CloudTrail Lake integration (single organization)

Go to the AWS CloudTrail Lake settings page and select the name of the integration you want to remove.

Select Remove integration and confirm that you want to remove the integration.

This action removes Snyk’s configuration for this integration, which will prevent any further audit logs from being sent to AWS CloudTrail Lake. This does not remove the Snyk integration in AWS CloudTrail Lake. To do this, go to AWS CloudTrail Lake and delete the Snyk integration from the Integration list.

Remove an AWS CloudTrail Lake integration (Snyk group and child organizations)

As noted above, group-level integrations are currently only supported using the Snyk REST API. You can remove an integration using the Delete a group registration endpoint. For tips on how to use the API, see the section above about configuring a group-level integration, or see the REST API docs.

Query Snyk audit logs in AWS CloudTrail Lake

Once your Snyk audit logs are being forwarded to AWS CloudTrail Lake, you can access them with the AWS CloudTrail Lake Query functionality. You can use this example query to get started:\

select 
    eventtime, 
    eventdata.useridentity, 
    eventdata.eventname,
    eventdata.additionaleventdata
from <EVENT-DATA-STORE-ID>
order by eventTime desc
limit 10

Replace <EVENT-DATA-STORE-ID> with the ID of the event data store that is associated with the Snyk integration in AWS CloudTrail Lake.

Understanding the log data

There are three (3) key fields to note when using the Snyk audit log data in AWS CloudTrail Lake.

eventdata.useridentity

The event useridentity contains a field called principalid, which represents the Snyk user ID for the user associated with the audit event. You can use Snyk API v1 Get organization level audit logs to match the Snyk user ID with a user in your organization.

eventdata.eventname

This represents the type of audit event (for example, api.access or org.cloud_config.settings.edit) and can be used to group or filter events.

eventdata.additionaleventdata

This field contains a raw JSON payload with more detailed information about the audit event. The content of the payload depends on the type of the event. For example, an API access event will include the accessed URL, while a settings change event will include before and after values for the changed setting.