Detect and investigate Amazon EC2 malware with Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective

This article discusses how public sector organizations can detect and investigate malware on Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective. The key points include:

• Amazon GuardDuty provides advanced malware detection for EC2 instances
• Two types of malware scans are available: GuardDuty-initiated and on-demand scans
• Amazon Detective helps investigate security findings by analyzing:
  • API activity patterns
  • Network traffic flows
  • Resource configurations
• Two main types of malware findings:
• Execution:EC2/MaliciousFile (confirmed malicious)
• Execution:EC2/SuspiciousFiles (potentially unwanted programs)

The article emphasizes the importance of using AWS security tools to detect, investigate, and respond to potential malware threats in cloud environments.