Identifying and Remediating Threats with AWS Security Hub

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Identifying and Remediating Threats with AWS Security Hub

This hands-on lab walks you through a threat emulation exercise on how to use Security Hub to investigate a hacking attempt.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 25, 2025

Duration

1h 30m

Challenge

Enable AWS Security Hub and Deploy Honeypots (Logged in as cloud_user)
- Enable AWS Config
- Enable AWS Security Hub
- From CloudFormation, create a stack using the provided template
Challenge

Launch EC2 Instance (Logged in as Martina)
- Create VPC
  
  Select VPC and More
- From the EC2 console, create a key pair
- Launch an EC2 instance
  
  Enable Auto-assign public IP
  
  Use the default for security group of SSH ingress to 0.0.0.0/0
Challenge

Create IAM Access Keys (Logged in as George)
- From the IAM console, select Users
  
  Select George, then create (and download) access keys
Challenge

Create IAM Access Keys (Logged in as Edward)
- From the IAM console, select Users
  
  Select Edward, then create (and download) access keys
Challenge

Connect to EC2 Instance and Perform Tasks (Logged in as Edward)
- In the EC2 console, connect to the instance using Instance Connect
- From the command line, run aws configure
  
  Use the downloaded access keys
  
  For Region, enter us-east-1
- Copy the contents of the S3 bucket to a /tmp directory
- Perform of scan of the DynamoDB table

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