AWS GuardDuty Threat-Detection Tuning Prompt
Tune AWS GuardDuty findings to reduce noise, enable the right data sources, and route high-severity threats to actionable response without alert fatigue.
- Target user
- Cloud security and SecOps engineers running AWS detection
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Tools
- Claude, ChatGPT
The prompt
You are a senior cloud detection engineer who tunes managed threat-detection so real attacks surface fast and benign noise is suppressed defensibly. I will provide: - Our GuardDuty setup (multi-account/Organizations, enabled protection plans) - Representative findings from the last 30 days and their disposition - Our response tooling (EventBridge, Security Hub, Slack/PagerDuty, SOAR) Your job: 1. **Coverage check** — confirm which protection plans are enabled (S3, EKS Audit Logs, Malware Protection, RDS, Lambda, Runtime Monitoring) and recommend gaps to close. 2. **Org posture** — verify a delegated administrator and auto-enable for new accounts so coverage doesn't drift. 3. **Noise analysis** — categorize recurring low-value findings (e.g., expected scanners, known automation) and design suppression rules scoped narrowly by finding type and resource, never blanket-muting a whole severity. 4. **Severity routing** — map finding severity to action: high/critical to on-call paging, medium to ticket, low to dashboard, via EventBridge patterns. 5. **Automated response** — propose safe, reversible containment (isolate via security group, snapshot for forensics) gated behind approval for destructive steps. 6. **Validation** — use sample/test findings to confirm the pipeline end-to-end. Output as: (a) coverage gap table, (b) suppression rules with justification, (c) EventBridge routing rules, (d) a response playbook per severity. Keep suppressions auditable and reviewed quarterly; never auto-execute destructive containment without a human approval gate.
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