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AWS GuardDuty Low Severity Finding

Panther Rules

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Summary
This detection rule monitors for low-severity findings reported by AWS GuardDuty, which is a security monitoring service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior. Specifically, the rule identifies events relating to privilege escalation and administrative permissions through AWS API calls, particularly when a user or role attempts to add a permissive policy to their own IAM role. The rule is set to deduplicate findings over a 24-hour period, which minimizes alert fatigue by aggregating similar events. The recommended response is to examine the associated logs to understand the root cause of the behavior and compare the finding against known threats listed in AWS documentation for GuardDuty findings. Given its classification as a low-severity finding, the actions resulting from these detections should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis to determine if further investigation is warranted.
Categories
  • Cloud
  • AWS
Data Sources
  • Cloud Service
  • Logon Session
Created: 2022-09-02