Monitoring AWS for suspicious login activities
You are an Amazon Web Services (AWS) admin who manages access to AWS resources and services across your organization. As part of your role, you need to monitor your AWS authentication events using your CloudTrail logs. Abusive behaviors caused by compromised credentials can lead to direct monetary costs, as you will be billed for any instances created by the attacker.
These searches will help you detect suspicious logins to your AWS infrastructure, helping you stay aware of and investigate this potential threat.
Data required
- Amazon Web Services:
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- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- AWS IAM
How to use Splunk software for this use case
- Detect AWS console login by user from new city
- Detect AWS console login by user from new region
- Detect AWS console login by user from new country
Next steps
f you are a Splunk Enterprise Security customer, you can also get help from the Security Research team's support options on GitHub.
In addition, Splunk Enterprise Security provides a number of other searches to help reinforce your Cloud Security posture, including: