Conducting threat detection and response

In the previous section, we spoke about a way to log activity in our cloud environment (what was done, when, and by whom).

In this section, we will review managed services that allow us to review our logs and pinpoint actual threats and our response to the threats.

Using Amazon Detective for threat detection

Amazon Detective connects to services such as AWS CloudTrail and Amazon VPC Flow Logs to detect login events, API calls, and network traffic.

It then uses machine learning to detect activities outside normal behavior to assist you in finding the root cause of suspicious activities in your AWS environment.

Amazon Detective is the cloud-native equivalent of third-party tools such as Splunk, which allows you to query a large number of logs and detect security-related incidents.

Best practices for using Amazon Detective for threat detection

Here is a list of best practices to follow:

• Allow access to the Amazon Detective...