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Incident response guide for AWS CloudTrail investigations – Part 2

The second instalment builds on cross-account S3 deletion and cryptomining scenarios with actionable CloudTrail query patterns — SOC teams can directly operationalise these for AWS detection engineering.

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In Part 1 of this guide, we examined two common incident scenarios: cross-account Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data deletion with ransomware implications, and cryptocurrency mining deployed through AWS CloudFormation using exposed AWS Management Console credentials. We also introduced key incident response terminology and investigative frameworks for analyzing AWS CloudTrail events. In this second […]

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Why it matters

Operationally ready CloudTrail query patterns help SOC teams close detection gaps for the most common AWS-native attack scenarios.

What to do

Deploy the provided query patterns as scheduled searches in your cloud SIEM and validate alert fidelity.

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