GuardDuty detector must be enabled
Critical
AWS
General
aws-guardduty-detector-guardduty-detector-enabled
Applies to
AWS::GuardDuty::Detector
What CGPulse checks
A resource passes this rule when status must equal ENABLED. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.
How to fix it
Enable flow logs to analyze network traffic for security threats. In AWS Console: VPC > Flow logs > Create flow log. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html
CLI
aws guardduty update-detector --detector-id "{id}" --enableTerraform
resource "aws_guardduty_detector" "{name}" {
enable = true
}
Compliance frameworks
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