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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838827793
Pages 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process 3. What is a Cyber Strategy? 4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 5. Reconnaissance 6. Compromising the System 7. Chasing a User's Identity 8. Lateral Movement 9. Privilege Escalation 10. Security Policy 11. Network Segmentation 12. Active Sensors 13. Threat Intelligence 14. Investigating an Incident 15. Recovery Process 16. Vulnerability Management 17. Log Analysis 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Amazon Web Services (AWS) logs

When you have resources located on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and you need to audit the overall activity of the platform, you need to enable AWS Cloud Trail. When you enable this feature, all activities that are occurring in your AWS account will be recorded in a CloudTrail event. These events are searchable and are kept for 90 days in your AWS account. here you have an example of a Trail:

Figure 3: Trails shown in AWS

If you click Event history, in the left navigation, you can see the list of events that were created. The list below has interesting events, including the deletion of a volume and the creation of a new role:

Figure 4: Event history in AWS

This is a comprehensive list of all events that were tracked. You can click on each one of those events to obtain more detailed information about it, as shown below:

Figure 5: Specific event information when clicking on one of the events listed in AWS

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