Get to know Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2

This article provides an in-depth overview of Amazon GuardDuty's Runtime Monitoring feature for Amazon EC2 instances. It covers the key capabilities, deployment strategies, and security value of the feature.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Features and functions of Runtime Monitoring, including command argument collection, event correlation, and new finding types related to suspicious tools, commands, and malicious file execution
• Details on the information included in GuardDuty runtime findings, such as impacted AWS resources, process details, and runtime context
• Strategies for responding to runtime findings, such as using Amazon EventBridge for event-based responses and investigating findings through the GuardDuty console
• Speed to detection benefits of Runtime Monitoring compared to log-based threat detection
• Deployment strategies for installing the GuardDuty security agent, including GuardDuty-managed installation, tag-based installation, and manual installation options
• Conclusion emphasizing the security value of Runtime Monitoring for identifying and responding to threats on EC2 instances