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Automate Disabling AD Users from GuardDuty Findings

🔐 This AWS Security Blog post explains how to use Amazon GuardDuty to detect suspicious activity and automatically disable accounts in AWS Managed Microsoft AD. It walks through deploying a managed directory and a directory-administration EC2 instance, configuring AWS Systems Manager Run Command documents, and orchestrating those actions with AWS Step Functions triggered by Amazon EventBridge. The guide includes required permissions, testing steps using GuardDuty’s test domains, and notes on extending the automation to reset passwords or send notifications.

AWS Security Incident Response: Accelerating IR Lifecycle

🛡️ AWS Security Incident Response is a Tier 1, AWS-native service launched in December 2024 to accelerate detection, triage, and containment of security incidents. It integrates with Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and AWS Systems Manager, supports partner integrations, and enables escalation to AWS CIRT. The service centralizes findings, automates monitoring and intelligent triage to reduce false positives, and offers prebuilt containment playbooks and APIs to compress MTTR and coordinate cross-account response.

AWS releases SRA Verify: Open-source SRA assessment

🔍 SRA Verify is an open-source assessment tool from AWS that automates validation of an organization’s alignment to the AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA). It runs automated checks across multiple services to verify configurations and highlight deviations from recommended patterns. The tool links checks to remediation guidance and IaC examples to help teams implement fixes more quickly. It currently covers CloudTrail, GuardDuty, IAM Access Analyzer, Config, Security Hub, S3, Inspector, and Macie, with plans to expand.