AWS GuardDuty Integration
AWS GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation.
- Go to the "Alert sources" tab and click "Create new alert source"
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- Enter a name and select your desired escalation policy.
- Select "AWS GuardDuty" as the Integration Type and click Save.

- On the next page, an AWS GuardDuty URL is generated. You will need the URL for the webhook configuration

- Use the search bar and select Simple Notification Service (SNS). Select Topics and click Create Topic in the SNS Dashboard.
- Input a Topic name and Display name and Create topic. After the topic has been created, Select Subscriptions in the left hand menu and click Create Subscription.

- Select HTTPS Protocol and put the URL that was received from ilert side into the Endpoint field, keep the Enable raw message delivery checkbox unchecked and Create Subscription.
- The subscription would be confirmed automatically on ilert side, but make sure the Subscription ID is not in PendingConfirmation state.
- Search and select the Amazon GuardDuty console in the Service Search. Search for GuardDuty click Enable GuardDuty if this is the first time enabling Amazon GuardDuty.
- If the GuardDuty is enabled, CloudWatch Event Rules can be configured to send alerts to ilert and please navigate to the CloudWatch console.
- To create a rule, select Rules under Events and then click Create Rules. Select GuardDuty as the Service Name and then choose GuardDuty Finding as the Event Type.

- Click Add a target and select SNS topic, select Your Topic Name that has been created earlier and then click Configure Details.
- Assign a Name like
ilert-incidents
and click Create Rule.

- In order to test this, go back to the Amazon GuardDuty console and generate sample findings, to create event in ilert.

- Select Settings, then select Generate Sample Findings and then click Findings in the left navigation bar.
- The sample findings should have been generated, and it will create the event in the ilert automatically.