AWS CloudTrail Log Analysis: How to Find Who Did What (And When)
How to actually use CloudTrail logs day-to-day — tracing non-compliant resources to their source, querying with Athena, and setting up alerts before things go wrong.
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AWS Incident Response: 5 Scenarios & How to Contain Them
Five real-world AWS incident response scenarios with detection signals, containment steps, CLI commands, and automation examples. Practical guide for security teams.
AWS Security Checklist: The 30-Minute Audit I Run on Every Account
The 30-minute security baseline I run on every AWS account — 10 sections with copy-paste CLI commands covering IAM, S3, CloudTrail, network hardening, and cost monitoring.
Detect AWS IAM Privilege Escalation with CloudTrail
Set up AWS-native detection for privilege escalation using CloudTrail, EventBridge, and minimal infrastructure. Real API patterns and alerting included.
AWS Security Monitoring Without the Enterprise Price Tag
How to build a real AWS security monitoring stack without enterprise pricing — using CloudTrail, EventBridge, GuardDuty, and open-source tools like Wazuh and OpenSearch.
How to Detect AWS Root Account Usage (And Respond to It)
Detect and alert on AWS root account usage using CloudTrail, EventBridge, SNS, and optional Slack notifications. Step-by-step setup with CLI commands and Terraform included.