AWS customers often rely on third-party threat feeds and scanners with limited visibility to protect AWS workloads against active threats, leading to delayed responses.
Active threat defense in AWS Network Firewall uses Amazon threat intelligence through MadPot to automatically block malicious traffic and update rules for immediate protection.
Network Firewall with active threat defense offers streamlined operations, rapid protection updates, and deep threat inspection for collective defense.
Users can easily enable the active threat defense managed rule group within Network Firewall to protect against various types of threats.
Considerations include the use of TLS inspection for HTTPS traffic, mitigating false positives, and managing stateful rule group limits.
The post emphasizes the importance of leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense to enhance cloud workload security.
Prerequisites include creating a firewall policy and a firewall before setting up the active threat defense managed rule group.
Customers can utilize active threat defense with AWS Network Firewall in all Regions where Network Firewall is available.
Pricing details for active threat defense can be found on the AWS Network Firewall pricing page.
The active threat defense managed rule group enhances security by automatically blocking threats using Amazon threat intelligence.