GuardDuty on but a protection plan is off for resources you have

HIGH

What's the problem

Checks 6 plans: S3 Protection, EKS Audit Log, EKS Runtime Monitoring (automated agent), Malware Protection for EC2, RDS Protection, Lambda Protection. A plan is reported only when the Region has that kind of resource (S3 buckets, EKS clusters, EC2, Aurora/RDS PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB, Lambda)

How 6WAF detects it

  • Deterministic checks through AWS API calls (IAM, S3, EC2/VPC, CloudTrail, KMS, Secrets Manager, ACM, detection services) — no LLM is used for detection; severity is the value the scanner assigns, shown above.
  • Scanning uses an IAM Role you deploy yourself via CloudFormation; 6WAF stores no credentials and you revoke access any time by deleting the stack.
  • Automated scoring covers only part of the scope of standards such as ISO 27001 — this is a technical assessment, not a certification.

Pillar: Security — Fast Scan

Group: Detection services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, Inspector, Access Analyzer, Cost Anomaly Detection, Regions outside the scan)

Reference standard: AWS Security Hub GuardDuty.5–GuardDuty.10

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