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Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help protect your AWS accounts and workloads.
Similarly one may ask, does AWS have a SIEM?
A SIEM solution designed to natively monitor AWS environments gives you visibility into what is occurring and ensures the security of the systems and data. AlienVault USM Anywhere with its AWS-native sensor is a cloud monitoring platform with full AWS SIEM capabilities, including: CloudTrail Monitoring and Alerting.
- Deploy the CloudFormation template.
- Create and run a Lambda GuardDuty finding test event.
- Confirm the entry in the VPC Network ACL.
- Confirm the entry in the AWS WAF IPSets.
- Confirm the SNS notification subscription.
- Apply the WAF Web ACLs to resources.
Moreover, what is AWS GuardDuty?
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads. GuardDuty analyzes tens of billions of events across multiple AWS data sources, such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs.
CloudTrail can log all events from IAM and is one of the most important services from a SIEM perspective. CloudWatch Logs is an extension of the CloudWatch monitoring facility and provides the ability to parse system, service and application logs in near real time.