LoFP / a database instance may be created by a system or network administrator. verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. instances creations by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. if known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Techniques

Sample rules

AWS RDS Instance Creation

• source: elastic
• technicques:

Description

Identifies the creation of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database instance.

Detection logic

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:CreateDBInstance and event.outcome:success