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Containment with EC2 Triage - AWS Security Incident Response User Guide

Containment with EC2 Triage

Use this template if you want both containment capabilities and the ability for AWS Security Incident Response engineers to investigate running instances during an incident.

This template creates everything included in the containment-only template and adds the AWSSecurityIncidentResponseInvestigationPolicy to the AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainment role. This policy grants the following permissions:

  • Describe Amazon EC2 instances and their status

  • Retrieve instance profile information

  • Verify Systems Manager Agent connectivity on target instances

  • Execute ssm:SendCommand to run investigative commands on instances

EC2 Triage allows AWS Security Incident Response engineers to collect volatile forensic data from running Amazon EC2 instances during an active security incident. This data can include running processes, network connections, logged-in users, and other operating system artifacts that would be lost if the instance were terminated or stopped.

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09' Description: 'Template for AWS Security Incident Response containment roles' Resources: AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainment: Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role' Properties: RoleName: AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainment AssumeRolePolicyDocument: { 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement': [ { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Principal': { 'Service': 'containment.security-ir.amazonaws.com' }, 'Action': 'sts:AssumeRole', 'Condition': { 'StringEquals': { 'sts:ExternalId': !Sub '${AWS::AccountId}' } }, }, { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Principal': { 'Service': 'containment.security-ir.amazonaws.com' }, 'Action': 'sts:TagSession', }, ], } Policies: - PolicyName: AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainmentPolicy PolicyDocument: { 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement': [ { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': ['ssm:StartAutomationExecution'], 'Resource': [ !Sub 'arn:${AWS::Partition}:ssm:*::document/AWSSupport-ContainEC2Instance', !Sub 'arn:${AWS::Partition}:ssm:*::document/AWSSupport-ContainS3Resource', !Sub 'arn:${AWS::Partition}:ssm:*::document/AWSSupport-ContainIAMPrincipal', !Sub 'arn:${AWS::Partition}:ssm:*:${AWS::AccountId}:automation-execution/*', ], }, { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': ['ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation', 'ssm:GetAutomationExecution', 'ssm:ListCommandInvocations'], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': ['iam:PassRole'], 'Resource': !GetAtt AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainmentExecution.Arn, 'Condition': { 'StringEquals': { 'iam:PassedToService': 'ssm.amazonaws.com' } }, }, ], } - PolicyName: AWSSecurityIncidentResponseInvestigationPolicy PolicyDocument: { 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement': [ { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus', 'ec2:DescribeInstances', 'ec2:DescribeRouteTables', 'ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules', 'iam:GetInstanceProfile', 'ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation', 'ssm:GetCommandInvocation' ], 'Resource': '*' }, { 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'ssm:SendCommand' ], 'Resource': '*' } ] } AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainmentExecution: Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role' Properties: RoleName: AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainmentExecution AssumeRolePolicyDocument: { 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement': [{ 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Principal': { 'Service': 'ssm.amazonaws.com' }, 'Action': 'sts:AssumeRole' }], } ManagedPolicyArns: - !Sub arn:${AWS::Partition}:iam::aws:policy/SecurityAudit Policies: - PolicyName: AWSSecurityIncidentResponseContainmentExecutionPolicy PolicyDocument: { 'Version': '2012-10-17', 'Statement': [ { 'Sid': 'AllowIAMContainment', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'iam:AttachRolePolicy', 'iam:AttachUserPolicy', 'iam:DeactivateMFADevice', 'iam:DeleteLoginProfile', 'iam:DeleteRolePolicy', 'iam:DeleteUserPolicy', 'iam:GetLoginProfile', 'iam:GetPolicy', 'iam:GetRole', 'iam:GetRolePolicy', 'iam:GetUser', 'iam:GetUserPolicy', 'iam:ListAccessKeys', 'iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies', 'iam:ListAttachedUserPolicies', 'iam:ListMfaDevices', 'iam:ListPolicies', 'iam:ListRolePolicies', 'iam:ListUserPolicies', 'iam:ListVirtualMFADevices', 'iam:PutRolePolicy', 'iam:PutUserPolicy', 'iam:TagMFADevice', 'iam:TagPolicy', 'iam:TagRole', 'iam:TagUser', 'iam:UntagMFADevice', 'iam:UntagPolicy', 'iam:UntagRole', 'iam:UntagUser', 'iam:UpdateAccessKey', 'identitystore:CreateGroupMembership', 'identitystore:DeleteGroupMembership', 'identitystore:IsMemberInGroups', 'identitystore:ListUsers', 'identitystore:ListGroups', 'identitystore:ListGroupMemberships', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowOrgListAccounts', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': 'organizations:ListAccounts', 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowSSOContainment', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'sso:CreateAccountAssignment', 'sso:DeleteAccountAssignment', 'sso:DeleteInlinePolicyFromPermissionSet', 'sso:GetInlinePolicyForPermissionSet', 'sso:ListAccountAssignments', 'sso:ListInstances', 'sso:ListPermissionSets', 'sso:ListPermissionSetsProvisionedToAccount', 'sso:PutInlinePolicyToPermissionSet', 'sso:TagResource', 'sso:UntagResource', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowSSORead', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': ['sso-directory:SearchUsers', 'sso-directory:DescribeUser'], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowS3Read', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 's3:GetAccountPublicAccessBlock', 's3:GetBucketAcl', 's3:GetBucketLocation', 's3:GetBucketOwnershipControls', 's3:GetBucketPolicy', 's3:GetBucketPolicyStatus', 's3:GetBucketPublicAccessBlock', 's3:GetBucketTagging', 's3:GetEncryptionConfiguration', 's3:GetObject', 's3:GetObjectAcl', 's3:GetObjectTagging', 's3:GetReplicationConfiguration', 's3:ListBucket', 's3express:GetBucketPolicy', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowS3Write', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 's3:CreateBucket', 's3:DeleteBucketPolicy', 's3:DeleteObjectTagging', 's3:PutAccountPublicAccessBlock', 's3:PutBucketACL', 's3:PutBucketOwnershipControls', 's3:PutBucketPolicy', 's3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock', 's3:PutBucketTagging', 's3:PutBucketVersioning', 's3:PutObject', 's3:PutObjectAcl', 's3express:CreateSession', 's3express:DeleteBucketPolicy', 's3express:PutBucketPolicy', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowAutoScalingWrite', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags', 'autoscaling:DeleteTags', 'autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups', 'autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances', 'autoscaling:DescribeTags', 'autoscaling:EnterStandby', 'autoscaling:ExitStandby', 'autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowEC2Containment', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress', 'ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress', 'ec2:CopyImage', 'ec2:CreateImage', 'ec2:CreateSecurityGroup', 'ec2:CreateSnapshot', 'ec2:CreateTags', 'ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup', 'ec2:DeleteTags', 'ec2:DescribeImages', 'ec2:DescribeInstances', 'ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups', 'ec2:DescribeSnapshots', 'ec2:DescribeTags', 'ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute', 'ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowKMSActions', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': [ 'kms:CreateGrant', 'kms:DescribeKey', 'kms:GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext', 'kms:ReEncryptFrom', 'kms:ReEncryptTo', ], 'Resource': '*', }, { 'Sid': 'AllowSSMActions', 'Effect': 'Allow', 'Action': ['ssm:DescribeAutomationExecutions'], 'Resource': '*', }, ], }