{"id":2991,"date":"2019-08-31T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=2991"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T11:06:40","slug":"automated-aws-incidence-response","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/aws-certified-security-specialty\/automated-aws-incidence-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated AWS Incidence response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AWS has documented incident response plan to\ncover <ul><li>addresses purpose<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>scope<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>roles<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>responsibilities<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>management commitment <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>As per ISO 27001 and NIST 800-53 standards. <\/li><li>AWS approach to incident management, is as <\/li><li>AWS detects an incident.<\/li><li>Specialized teams address incident.<\/li><li>AWS conducts a postmortem and deep root-cause\nanalysis of incident.<\/li><li>customer support team is notified of operational\nissues impacting customer experience. <\/li><li>AWS customer support team alert customers to any\nissues having broad impact, with help from Service Health Dashboard <\/li><li>independent external auditors review the AWS incident\nmanagement program on continual basis<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AWS Security Domains<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Security incidents may occur in AWS <\/li><li>Various domains in customer&#8217;s responsibility,\nsecurity incidents might occur<ul><li>service<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>infrastructure<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>&nbsp;application<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Difference is&nbsp;\nrelated to tools to use during the response<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Service Domain <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Incidents affect user&#8217;s <ul><li>AWS account<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>IAM permissions<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>resource metadata<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>billing<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Such event response is exclusively with <ul><li>AWS API mechanisms<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>have\nroot causes associated with configuration or resource permissions<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>may\nrelate to service-oriented logging.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Infrastructure\nDomain <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Incidents include data or network-related\nactivity, as <\/li><li>traffic to Amazon EC2 instances within VPC<\/li><li>processes and data on EC2 instances<\/li><li>Response involves <ul><li>retrieval, restoration, or acquisition of incident-related\ndata for forensics. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>interaction with operating system of an instance<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>also involve AWS API mechanisms<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Usage of AWS APIs digital forensics\/incident\nresponse (DFIR) software are needed <\/li><li>Incidents may involve analyzing <ul><li>network\npacket captures<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>disk\nblocks on an EBS volume,&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>volatile\nmemory acquired from an instance.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Application Domain <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Incidents occur in application code or software\ndeployed to AWS<\/li><li>With appropriate application architecture, can\nmanage this domain <\/li><li>Usage of following is involved&nbsp; <ul><li>automated forensics<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>recovery <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>deployment<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Detecting Cloud Security Events<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Logs and Monitors \u2013 Involves review of AWS logs\nfrom <ul><li>CloudTrail<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>S3 access logs<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>VPC Flow Logs<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>security monitoring services GuardDuty and\nMacie. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Route 53 health checks <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>CloudWatch Alarms<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>OS logs as Windows Events or Linux syslog logs<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>application-specific logs, as generated <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Billing Activity \u2013sudden change in billing\nactivity <\/li><li>Threat Intelligence \u2013third-party threat\nintelligence feed may correlate information with logging and monitoring tools <\/li><li>Partner Tools Usage \u2013AWS Partner Network (APN)\noffer many security related products <\/li><li>AWS Outreach \u2013 AWS Support may contact if\nabusive or malicious activity is identified<\/li><li>One-Time Contact \u2013 Unusual activity noticed by\ncustomers, developers, or other staff by a public-facing security contact\nmechanism.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Automation for abuse events handling <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AWS has<ul><li>Automated processes for abuse alerts<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>set up remediation steps<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>control access to sensitive abuse cases. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Use following for automating abuse event\nhandling<ul><li>AWS Personal Health Dashboard (PHD)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Health APIs<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Health Amazon CloudWatch Events channel. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Abuse types handled by AWS Health <ul><li>Sending email spam<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Spamming online forums or other websites<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Hosting a site advertised in spam<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Excessive web crawling<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Intrusion attempts (e.g., SSH or FTP)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Exploit attacks (e.g., SQL injections)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Hosting unlicensed copyright-protected material<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Phishing website<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Website hosting viruses\/malware<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Credit card fraud<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Open proxy<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Port scanning<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>IRC botnet activity<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Custom automation programs can be developed on\nbasis of abuse events. <\/li><li>Like for DoS event, route to correct team,\nperson, or system.<\/li><li>Can also use SNS notifier for events<\/li><li>Also manage access to sensitive abuse alerts\nlike related to security.<ul><li>With fine-grained access control, limit access\nto sensitive alerts to specific users <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Health API programmatic access to the AWS Health\ninformation, as <ul><li>DescribeEvents: Summary information about\nevents.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DescribeEventDetails: Detailed information about\none or more events.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DescribeAffectedEntities: It gives details on AWS\nresources which are affected by events.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DescribeEventTypes: Details on types of events which\nare tracked by AWS Health.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DescribeEventAggregates: A count of the number\nof events that meet specified criteria.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>DescribeEntityAggregates: A count of the number\nof affected entities that meet specified criteria.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image-124.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3682\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWS has documented incident response plan to cover addresses purpose scope roles responsibilities management commitment As per ISO 27001 and NIST 800-53 standards. 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