Building Better Cloud Detections... By Hacking? | AWS Edition

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. We will discuss 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