name: Suspicious Cloud User Activities
id: 1ed5ce7d-5469-4232-92af-89d1a3595b39
version: 1
date: '2020-09-04'
author: David Dorsey, Splunk
type: batch
description: Detect and investigate suspicious activities by users and roles in your
  cloud environments.
narrative: 'It seems obvious that it is critical to monitor and control the users
  who have access to your cloud infrastructure. Nevertheless, it''s all too common
  for enterprises to lose track of ad-hoc accounts, leaving their servers vulnerable
  to attack. In fact, this was the very oversight that led to Tesla''s cryptojacking
  attack in February, 2018.\

  In addition to compromising the security of your data, when bad actors leverage
  your compute resources, it can incur monumental costs, since you will be billed
  for any new instances and increased bandwidth usage.'
references:
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-best-practices.pdf
- https://redlock.io/blog/cryptojacking-tesla
tags:
  analytic_story: Suspicious Cloud User Activities
  category:
  - Cloud Security
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  usecase: Security Monitoring
