LoadBalancer Security Group Modification

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects changes to the security groups associated with an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) or Application Load Balancer (ALB). This can indicate that a misconfiguration allowing more traffic into the system than required, or could indicate that an attacker is attempting to enable new connections into a VPC or subnet controlled by the account.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "DETECTION_ACTION_AWS_LOAD_BALANCER_SECURITY_GROUP_MODIFIED" select Action1.CALLER,Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.IPADDRESS,Action1.LOG_EVENT_NAME,Action1.SOURCE,Action1.SOURCE_REGION,Action1.REQUESTPARAMETERS

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

AWS

Author

jamesc-grafana