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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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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 30m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 03, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Challenge

    Create IAM Access Keys (Logged in as George)

    • From the IAM console, select Users
      • Select George, then create (and download) access keys

  4. Challenge

    Create IAM Access Keys (Logged in as Edward)

    • From the IAM console, select Users
      • Select Edward, then create (and download) access keys

  5. 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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