from day 4 of AWS NYC loft security week

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Lab Preparation and Real-Time Insights Lab
Greg McConnel,
Security Solutions Architect
Jesse Fuchs,
Security Solutions Architect

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Agenda
1. Prep for GuardDuty Lab
2. Address any account or credit issues
3. Real Time Insight Lab

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Preparation for GuardDuty Lab
• We strongly recommend using your own AWS account, not a work account
• Set up a new account if needed
• We will provide AWS credits
• GuardDuty is at no cost for the first 30 days (if you already had GuardDuty
setup in your account you can open a new account for the lab)

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Entering the AWS Account Credits
• In the AWS Console, click in the upper right hand corner where your name
is and choose My Account
• On the left hand side click Credits
• Enter the code

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Real-Time Insights Lab

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Architecture
https://aws.amazon.com/answers/account-management/real-time-insights-account-activity/

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Solution Details
• CloudTrail records activity from the Console, SDKs, CLI, and other AWS services
• CloudWatch event rule monitors for CloudTrail activity and sends data to Kinesis
Firehose
• Kinesis Firehose archives the events to S3 and sends the data to Kinesis Analytics for
processing.
• Once processed, the data is sent to Kinesis Streams. A Lambda function reads data
from the stream and sends to a DynamoDB table to be stored and then read from
the dashboard
• Dashboard is a web page in S3 that uses Cognito user pools for access

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Solution Walkthrough

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URL
http://lab.gregmcconnel.net/

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Real-Time Insights Lab
Questions:
1. Is this dashboard truly “real-time”?
2. How does the dashboard get access to DynamoDB?
3. How scalable is the solution?
4. How is the anomaly metric calculated?
5. What services or calls are not being monitored by this solution?
http://lab.gregmcconnel.net/

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