Amazon Guardduty — Why it is a must for AWS Security

A while back I wrote about AWS control tower and how it is the best way to secure multi-account AWS environments. That was part of a larger series covering essential cloud security services in the cloud and today I will go over another awesome AWS service which is Amazon GuardDuty. If you have worked in the cloud before then you know that the Cloud follows a shared responsibility model where the cloud provider secures the underlying platform while customers are responsible for the security of the workloads. This is same across AWS , Azure and GCP and having a proper cloud security posture usually involves using a mixture of native and commercial cloud services.

One of the best native cloud security services available for AWS customers is Amazon GuardDuty

Why do you need Amazon GuardDuty ?

Simply put if you have a busy cloud environment, then there will be too many events happening for you to monitor manually. You can offload this to a Security Operations Center (SOC) team who monitor your environment 24/7 but even then the risk of alert fatigue is there. This is where Amazon GuardDuty comes in and saves the day

GuardDuty is a threat detection service that uses machine learning to continuously monitor your environment. It gathers data from different data…