AWS Security Blog
Tag: Amazon GuardDuty
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 […]
Get to know Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2
In this blog post, I take you on a deep dive into Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for EC2 instances and key capabilities that are part of the feature. Throughout the post, I provide insights around deployment strategies for Runtime Monitoring and detail how it can deliver security value by detecting threats against your Amazon Elastic […]
How AWS tracks the cloud’s biggest security threats and helps shut them down
Threat intelligence that can fend off security threats before they happen requires not just smarts, but the speed and worldwide scale that only AWS can offer. Organizations around the world trust Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their most sensitive data. One of the ways we help secure data on AWS is with an industry-leading threat […]
Navigating the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2024
A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. We’re counting down to AWS re:Inforce, our annual cloud security event! We are thrilled to invite security enthusiasts and builders to join us in Philadelphia, PA, from June 10–12 for an immersive two-and-a-half-day […]
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 […]
Using Amazon GuardDuty ECS runtime monitoring with Fargate and Amazon EC2
Containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration solutions such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) are popular with customers due to their portability and scalability advantages. Container runtime monitoring is essential for customers to monitor the health, performance, and security of containers. AWS services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and AWS Security Hub […]
Four use cases for GuardDuty Malware Protection On-demand malware scan
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation. GuardDuty Malware Protection helps detect the presence of malware by performing agentless scans of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to […]
Security at multiple layers for web-administered apps
In this post, I will show you how to apply security at multiple layers of a web application hosted on AWS. Apply security at all layers is a design principle of the Security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It encourages you to apply security at the network edge, virtual private cloud (VPC), load balancer, […]
How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actors
Every day across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, we detect and successfully thwart hundreds of cyberattacks that might otherwise be disruptive and costly. These important but mostly unseen victories are achieved with a global network of sensors and an associated set of disruption tools. Using these capabilities, we make it more difficult and […]
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, […]