Hands-On Workshop: Building Better Detections | AWS Edition

This is a 2-hour hands-on workshop. As with any enterprise environment, we can (and should) focus on hardening our defenses to keep the adversaries out, but these defenses may some day be evaded via a variety of methods. Cloud is no different. In this workshop, we will work through the process of creating a detection that we can use as defenders to spot an adversary performing attack techniques against our AWS environments. The overall process and takeaways will be:

• Establish proper logging to detect the adversarial activity
• Perform the attack to generate the appropriate artifacts
• Review the log event data
• Create an automated process to quickly discover this activity
• Test that the automated process is working effectively by “re-attacking” the AWS account

Prerequisites: Prepare for this webcast by watching the introductory webcast Building Better Cloud Detections... By Hacking? (AWS Edition)

System Requirements:

• Laptop with a modern web browser
• AWS account with root access or an IAM user with Administrator Access permissions
• If you need an AWS account, you can create a free tier account with root access at https://aws.amazon.com/free/. The cost will be minimal (pennies) to complete the workshop
• Basic Understanding of AWS is helpful

This content supports materials and concepts from SEC541: Cloud Security Attacker Technique, Monitoring, and Threat Detection