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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 1: Detection

Amazon GuardDuty: foundational data sources, protection plans, finding types and a delegated administrator for the organization

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Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service. It continuously analyzes activity in your accounts with threat intelligence, anomaly detection and machine learning, and produces findings when something looks malicious, such as an instance talking to a known command-and-control server, credentials used from an unusual location, or cryptocurrency mining.

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