Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #VPC
Most recents (3)
Highlights from chasing an attacker in #AWS this week:
Initial lead: custom alert using #CloudTrail
- SSH keygen from weird source
IP enrichment helped
Historical context for IAM user, "this isn't normal"
#GuardDuty was not initial lead
- Did have LOW sev high vol alerts
Initial lead: custom alert using #CloudTrail
- SSH keygen from weird source
IP enrichment helped
Historical context for IAM user, "this isn't normal"
#GuardDuty was not initial lead
- Did have LOW sev high vol alerts
Attacker tradecraft:
- Made ingress rules on sec groups that allowed any access to anything in VPC
- Interesting API calls: > 300 AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress calls
- Spun up new ec2 instance likely to persist
- Mostly recon - "What policy permissions does this IAM user have?"
- Made ingress rules on sec groups that allowed any access to anything in VPC
- Interesting API calls: > 300 AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress calls
- Spun up new ec2 instance likely to persist
- Mostly recon - "What policy permissions does this IAM user have?"
Investigations:
Orchestration was super helpful. We bring our own.
For any AWS alert we auto acquire:
- Interesting API calls (anything that isn't Get*, List*, Describe*)
- List of assumed roles (+ failures)
- AWS services touched user user/role
- Gave us answers, fast
Orchestration was super helpful. We bring our own.
For any AWS alert we auto acquire:
- Interesting API calls (anything that isn't Get*, List*, Describe*)
- List of assumed roles (+ failures)
- AWS services touched user user/role
- Gave us answers, fast
Hey all, I’m doing a weekly twitter standup, mostly for myself. But if you or anyone else would like to join, feel free to ping me. I’m thinking a weekly basis won’t be too time consuming. Pick a day of the week, and I’ll @ you to remind you. #weeklytwitterstandup
Did last week:
✅ finally built script to track usage of my servers. It’s a python script uploaded to AWS lambda. The script pings my half-dozen servers for data usage and writes the data onto 1) a MySQL server hosted on AWS RDS, 2) BigQuery database, and 3) google sheets
✅ finally built script to track usage of my servers. It’s a python script uploaded to AWS lambda. The script pings my half-dozen servers for data usage and writes the data onto 1) a MySQL server hosted on AWS RDS, 2) BigQuery database, and 3) google sheets
✅ built a dashboard on server usage data using Tableau public. I now have the dashboard scrolling on my Life Flips app.
Preparing for AWS exams?
Read this thread:
Read this thread:
The user can configure SQS, which will decouple the call between the EC2 application and S3. Thus, the application does not keep waiting for S3 to provide the data.
1/n
1/n
Auto Scaling enables you to follow the demand curve for your applications closely, reducing the need to manually provision Amazon EC2 capacity in advance.
2/n
2/n
