Amazon GuardDuty
Explore how Amazon GuardDuty helps protect AWS resources by detecting malicious activity and unauthorized behavior. Understand its core features, detection methods, and protection capabilities for services like EC2, Lambda, and S3. This lesson enables you to identify security risks and respond to threats effectively within AWS.
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Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior. It is a regional service that is fully managed by AWS. GuardDuty helps organizations protect AWS environments by identifying potential security issues such as unusual API calls, compromised EC2 instances, unauthorized access attempts, and potentially malicious IP addresses. By providing actionable alerts and insights into potential security risks, GuardDuty enables organizations to respond promptly to security incidents, mitigate threats, and strengthen our overall security posture in the AWS Cloud.
Key concepts and terminologies
Here are some key concepts and terminologies related to Amazon GuardDuty:
Detector: A GuardDuty detector is an instance of the GuardDuty service that continuously monitors and analyzes AWS resources and account activity for potential security threats in a region. ...