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Compliance Monitoring

Centralized compliance monitoring with Security Hub, GuardDuty threat detection, and AWS Config.

Problems this Architecture solves​

  • Consolidates findings from multiple AWS security services into one place for triage and reporting.
  • Reduces manual evidence gathering for compliance programs by centralizing signals and audit data.
  • Shortens the path from detection to action for high-severity findings across accounts.

Key Features​

  • GuardDuty: Continuous threat detection analyzing VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, and DNS logs
  • Inspector: Automated vulnerability scanning for EC2, ECR, and Lambda
  • AWS Config: Resource compliance tracking with managed and custom rules
  • Security Hub: Central aggregation point for all security findings across accounts
  • Audit Manager: Automated evidence collection for compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA)
  • AWS Shield: DDoS protection at L3/L4 with automatic mitigation
  • WAF: Layer 7 attack mitigation with custom rules
  • Route53 DNS Firewall: Block malicious domains at DNS level

Security Findings Flow​

  1. Detection services (GuardDuty, Inspector, Config) continuously monitor resources
  2. Findings are sent to Security Hub in the core-security account
  3. Security Hub aggregates and prioritizes findings
  4. Audit Manager collects evidence for compliance reporting
  5. Alerts trigger notifications via SNS/EventBridge for critical findings