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Setting Up OSSEC to Send Alerts to CloudWatch
Host-based intrusion detection systems provide an added layer of network and file security and monitoring to virtual (and physical!) servers, on the cloud or otherwise. But when you're on the cloud, you'll generally want those services to integrate with your cloud-based monitoring platform. In this hands-on lab, we work with OSSEC and AWS by setting up OSSEC on an existing server, configuring it, and ensuring it is sending logs to CloudWatch.
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Challenge
Create IAM Policy and Role
Create a policy and role that gives the EC2 instance the ability to create log groups and streams, add log events, and view a log stream in CloudWatch. Assign the role to the existing EC2 instance.
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Challenge
Install and Configure OSSEC
Install OSSEC locally to the provided Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance.
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Set Up CloudWatch Agent
Install the CloudWatch agent on the server and ensure it's configured to send OSSEC alerts to CloudWatch.
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