# cloudtrail-security-trail-enabled
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Checks that there is at least one Amazon CloudTrail trail defined with security best practices. This rule is COMPLIANT if there is at least one trail that meets all of the following:
+ records global service events
+ is a multi-region trail
+ has Log file validation enabled
+ encrypted with a KMS key
+ records events for reads and writes
+ records management events
+ does not exclude any management events

This rule is NON\$1COMPLIANT if no trails meet all of the criteria mentioned above.



**Identifier:** CLOUDTRAIL\$1SECURITY\$1TRAIL\$1ENABLED

**Trigger type:** Periodic

**Amazon Web Services Region:** All supported Amazon regions

**Parameters:**

None  

## Amazon CloudFormation template
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To create Amazon Config managed rules with Amazon CloudFormation templates, see [Creating Amazon Config Managed Rules With Amazon CloudFormation Templates](aws-config-managed-rules-cloudformation-templates.md).