The Challenge
Modern security operations centers face a relentless stream of alerts from multiple AWS services. GuardDuty fires on behavioral anomalies. Security Hub aggregates findings from dozens of sources. CloudWatch alarms trigger on metric thresholds. Managing all of this effectively requires:
- Constant monitoring of multiple AWS consoles simultaneously
- Manual triage to distinguish genuine threats from false positives
- Updating finding statuses to reflect current investigation states
- Tracking which detectors are active and which findings are new vs. already known
- Reporting on current security posture to leadership without interrupting analysis
The result is alert fatigue—where the sheer volume of notifications causes analysts to miss the signals that matter most.
The Autohive Solution
The AWS Security integration enables Autohive agents to continuously monitor your AWS security posture by automatically retrieving, organizing, and triaging alerts from GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudWatch—all without manual console access.
Active Detector Monitoring
List all GuardDuty detectors in your AWS account and region, then automatically retrieve and filter their findings. Keep a continuously updated view of what’s active, new, and unresolved.
Intelligent Finding Prioritization
Filter Security Hub and GuardDuty findings by severity, type, and status to surface the highest-priority issues first. Automatically archive confirmed false positives to reduce noise without losing audit records.
CloudWatch Metric Intelligence
Retrieve real-time metric statistics and describe alarm states across your environment. Correlate CloudWatch data with security findings to understand whether anomalous behavior corresponds to infrastructure events.
Posture Reporting Without Context Switching
Pull consolidated security posture data across all three services into structured reports for leadership or team briefings—without interrupting your analysts’ investigation workflows.
Benefits
- Reduced alert fatigue - Automated triage filters noise and surfaces genuine threats, keeping analysts focused
- Unified monitoring view - GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudWatch data consolidated without console switching
- Faster false positive management - Archive known-good detections automatically to keep finding queues clean
- Continuous posture awareness - Always-current visibility into active threats, alarm states, and finding statuses
- Scalable SOC workflows - Handle more alerts with the same team by automating routine retrieval and triage tasks
How It Works
- Continuous retrieval - Autohive workflows poll GuardDuty detectors and Security Hub findings on your defined schedule
- Severity filtering - Findings are filtered by severity and type to prioritize high-impact alerts
- Cross-service correlation - CloudWatch metric data is retrieved to provide environmental context for security findings
- Triage actions - Confirmed false positives are archived; genuine threats are escalated with full context
- Status synchronization - Security Hub finding workflow statuses are updated to reflect current investigation state
- Posture summary - Consolidated security posture reports are generated for leadership or shift handoffs
Getting Started
- Sign up at app.autohive.com
- Connect the AWS Security integration from the marketplace
- Configure your GuardDuty detector IDs, Security Hub filters, and CloudWatch namespaces
- Deploy your proactive monitoring agent
