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About Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service from AWS. It continuously analyzes activity in an AWS environment to spot suspicious or malicious behavior affecting accounts, workloads and stored data, and it produces findings that security teams can review and act on.
GuardDuty draws on AWS data sources such as CloudTrail event logs, VPC flow logs and DNS logs, and has protection plans that extend coverage to services such as S3, EKS and Lambda, along with malware detection. Findings can be sent to other AWS services, such as Security Hub and EventBridge, to trigger alerts or automated responses.
It is a fully managed AWS service with no infrastructure to deploy, enabled per account and region, and it can be run across an organization through AWS Organizations. Charges are usage based and detailed on the AWS pricing page.
Key features
- Continuous threat detection for AWS accounts
- Analysis of CloudTrail, VPC flow and DNS logs
- Protection plans for S3, EKS and Lambda
- Malware detection for workloads
- Findings integrated with Security Hub and EventBridge
Good fit for
- →Monitoring AWS accounts for compromise
- →Feeding detections into automated response
- Tags
- threat-detection
- aws
- cloud-security
- monitoring
- malware
- siem
- managed-service
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