AWS Redshift Cluster Creation

Identifies the creation of an Amazon Redshift cluster. Unexpected creation of this cluster by a non-administrative user may indicate a permission or role issue with current users. If unexpected, the resource may not properly be configured and could introduce security vulnerabilities.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-aws*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 10m

Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/APIReference/API_CreateCluster.html

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility
Persistence

Version: 3

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:redshift.amazonaws.com and event.action:CreateCluster and event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/

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