Detective

Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses ML, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build a dataset that you can use to conduct more efficient security investigations.

  • Looking into & managing the incidents that might occur
  • If you have sus activity, this tool will look into it to find out what exactly happened & which kind of actions were taken by a bad actor
  • Can also do this with CloudTrail, but its not restricted to users only

Details

  • Helps you explore various AWS resources to start your analysis
    • users, instances, roles, etc
    • explore actions taken by/on resource
    • get a list of automatic findings
  • Analyze findings & actions
    • explore finding details (date, involved resources, etc)
    • explore details for sus activities