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How to Monitor Host-Based Intrusion Detection System Alerts on Amazon EC2 Instances

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. To help you secure your AWS resources, we recommend that you adopt a layered approach that includes the use of preventative and detective controls. For example, incorporating host-based controls for your Amazon EC2 instances can restrict access and provide appropriate […]

How to Receive Alerts When Your IAM Configuration Changes

Note: This post has been updated to support the recently launched managed policies. As an AWS administrator, you want to know when your security configuration changes. Though some changes are expected, you may want to review unexpected changes or changes made by a privileged user. Fortunately, a newly released combination of AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch […]