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A security engineer needs to implement a solution to determine whether a company's Amazon EC2 instances are being used to mine cryptocurrency. The solution must provide notifications of…

The correct answer is B. Enable Amazon GuardDuty. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send alerts to the SNS topic. Amazon GuardDuty includes built-in threat detection capabilities that can identify suspicious activity such as cryptocurrency mining. When GuardDuty detects cryptocurrency-related activity, it generates a finding that can be used to trigger alerts. By configuring an Amazon…

Submitted by lucia.co· Mar 6, 2026Logging and Monitoring

Question

A security engineer needs to implement a solution to determine whether a company's Amazon EC2 instances are being used to mine cryptocurrency. The solution must provide notifications of cryptocurrency-related activity to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate AWS Config custom rules by using Guard custom policy. Configure the AWS Config rules
  • BEnable Amazon GuardDuty. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send alerts to the SNS topic
  • CEnable Amazon Inspector. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send alerts to the SNS topic
  • DEnable VPC flow logs. Send the flow logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. Set up a query in Amazon

How the community answered

(19 responses)
  • A
    11% (2)
  • B
    68% (13)
  • C
    16% (3)
  • D
    5% (1)

Explanation

Amazon GuardDuty includes built-in threat detection capabilities that can identify suspicious activity such as cryptocurrency mining. When GuardDuty detects cryptocurrency-related activity, it generates a finding that can be used to trigger alerts. By configuring an Amazon EventBridge rule to capture these specific findings and send notifications to an SNS topic, the solution provides real-time alerts for cryptocurrency mining activity on EC2 instances.

Topics

#GuardDuty#CryptoCurrency finding#EventBridge#SNS notification

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