AWS Security Blog
Category: Amazon Detective
Using Amazon Detective for IAM investigations
Uncovering AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles potentially involved in a security event can be a complex task, requiring security analysts to gather and analyze data from various sources, and determine the full scope of affected resources. Amazon Detective includes Detective Investigation, a feature that you can use to investigate IAM users […]
Investigating lateral movements with Amazon Detective investigation and Security Lake integration
According to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, lateral movement consists of techniques that threat actors use to enter and control remote systems on a network. In Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, threat actors equipped with illegitimately obtained credentials could potentially use APIs to interact with infrastructures and services directly, and they might even be able to use […]
Improve your security investigations with Detective finding groups visualizations
At AWS, we often hear from customers that they want expanded security coverage for the multiple services that they use on AWS. However, alert fatigue is a common challenge that customers face as we introduce new security protections. The challenge becomes how to operationalize, identify, and prioritize alerts that represent real risk. In this post, […]
Reduce triage time for security investigations with Amazon Detective visualizations and export data
To respond to emerging threats, you will often need to sort through large datasets rapidly to prioritize security findings. Amazon Detective recently released two new features to help you do this. New visualizations in Detective show the connections between entities related to multiple Amazon GuardDuty findings, and a new export data feature helps you use […]
How to improve security incident investigations using Amazon Detective finding groups
Uncovering the root cause of an Amazon GuardDuty finding can be a complex task, requiring security operations center (SOC) analysts to collect a variety of logs, correlate information across logs, and determine the full scope of affected resources. Sometimes you need to do this type of in-depth analysis because investigating individual security findings in insolation […]
Simplify setup of Amazon Detective with AWS Organizations
Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities by collecting log data from your AWS resources. Amazon Detective simplifies the process of a deep dive into a security finding from other AWS security services, such as Amazon GuardDuty and AWS SecurityHub. Detective […]
Analyze and understand IAM role usage with Amazon Detective
In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how you can use Amazon Detective’s new role session analysis feature to investigate security findings that are tied to the usage of an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. You’ll learn about how you can use this new role session analysis feature to determine which Amazon Web Services […]
Investigate VPC flow with Amazon Detective
Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers need enhanced insight into IP network flow. Traditionally, cost, the complexity of collection, and the time required for analysis has led to incomplete investigations of network flows. Having good telemetry is paramount, and VPC Flow Logs are a very important part of a robust centralized logging architecture. The information […]