A hard look at GuardDuty shortcomings

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AWS GuardDuty is a belt and suspenders security control for your cloud. However, it’s often taken as a panacea for cloud threat detection. I wanted to dive deeper and run some concrete experiments. Read on for the results of adversarial simulation, a review of detection latency, and an analysis of projected S3 ransomware timing. The conclusion? GuardDuty has coverage, cost, and efficacy gaps. These limitations make Canary Infrastructure a great complement, with a best-in-class signal-to-noise ratio, consistently low latency, and lower cost. If you're interested in how Tracebit can help, click Book a demo above to schedule a call with one of our founders. GuardDuty’s role as a required control for PCI DSS and NIST.800-53.r5 and place in Scott Piper’s AWS Security Maturity Roadmap is evidence of its cornerstone role in AWS security. It provides a baseline threat detection capability with a mix of signature, heuristic, and machine learning based rules. It’s strengths lie in: The past two

Is GuardDuty all you need for AWS threat detection? We've asked our friend Rami McCarthy to dive into GuardDuty's performance and consider the potential place for Canary Infrastructure. AWS GuardDuty is a belt and suspenders security control for your cloud. However, it's often taken as a panacea for cloud threat detection. I wanted to dive deeper and run some concrete experiments. Read on for the results of adversarial simulation, a review of detection latency, and an analysis of projected S3 ransomware timing. The conclusion? GuardDuty has coverage, cost, and efficacy gaps. These…

A hard look at GuardDuty shortcomings

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