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GuardDuty Not Enabled

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AWSprovider
Criticalseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

AWS

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Enable GuardDuty.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
GuardDuty Detectors on AWS
The fix, by hand
  1. GuardDuty → Settings → check current status. If detector is suspended, choose Resume.
  2. If no detector exists: GuardDuty → Get started → Enable GuardDuty.
  3. Enable optional protection plans relevant to your stack: S3, EKS, RDS, Lambda, Malware Protection.
  4. Configure findings export: Settings → Findings export → S3 bucket + KMS key (long-term retention).
  5. EventBridge rule → forward high/critical findings to SNS / Slack / PagerDuty.
  6. Enable across all active regions; use AWS Organizations to delegate the GuardDuty admin account if you have multiple accounts.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1100
Full reference

GuardDuty Not Enabled

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