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Threat Detection

Prowler allows you to do threat detection in AWS based on the CloudTrail log records. To run checks related with threat detection use: 

prowler aws --category threat-detection
This comand will run these checks:

  • cloudtrail_threat_detection_privilege_escalation
  • cloudtrail_threat_detection_enumeration
Note

Threat Detection checks will be only executed using --category threat-detection flag due to preformance.

Config File

If you want to manage the behavior of the Threat Detection checks you can edit config.yaml file from /prowler/config. In this file you can edit the following attributes related with Threat Detection:

  • threat_detection_privilege_escalation_threshold: determines the percentage of actions found to decide if it is an privilege_scalation attack event, by default is 0.1 (10%)
  • threat_detection_privilege_escalation_minutes: it is the past minutes to search from now for privilege_escalation attacks, by default is 1440 minutes (24 hours)
  • threat_detection_privilege_escalation_actions: these are the default actions related with priviledge scalation.
  • threat_detection_enumeration_threshold: determines the percentage of actions found to decide if it is an enumeration attack event, by default is 0.1 (10%)
  • threat_detection_enumeration_minutes: it is the past minutes to search from now for enumeration attacks, by default is 1440 minutes (24 hours)
  • threat_detection_enumeration_actions: these are the default actions related with enumeration attacks.