AWS Detective for security investigation
Blog post from Stream.Security
Amazon Detective is a fully managed AWS service designed to help users analyze and visualize security data, enabling more efficient and effective investigations. By automatically collecting log data from AWS sources like AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon VPC Flow Logs, Amazon Detective leverages machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to create interactive visualizations that assist security teams in understanding potential security issues. The service is easy to set up through the AWS Management Console and integrates seamlessly with other AWS security services, offering scalable and cost-effective solutions with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. It allows for continuous monitoring and updates its analyses as new data becomes available, establishing behavior baselines to help identify deviations and potential threats quickly. Amazon Detective's visualizations aid in investigating security incidents, proactive threat hunting, and compliance auditing by providing a comprehensive view of the AWS environment's security posture. Enabling the service is straightforward, requiring configuration through the AWS Management Console, with the option to specify data sources and regions for analysis.