In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use AWS Network Firewall to automatically respond to potential security events within your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that are detected by Amazon GuardDuty. The goal is to rapidly contain the impact of security events, while providing additional time for follow-up investigation.

By coding the response steps using services like AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions, your response time can be reduced down to minutes or even seconds. This response time is in contrast to manual response, which can often take hours or longer. This blog provides an example of using automation to scale your security processes in the cloud. read more