Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This is a combined document for enabling the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Dropzone AI Data Source and Alert Source.

The Dropzone AI platform integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs for ingesting alerts (AWS GuardDuty) and enriching investigations with data from AWS such as CloudWatch.

Dropzone creates a separate IAM role for each customer. This document describes how to enable the Dropzone role to access your AWS environment and configure the Dropzone platform.

Integration Overview

To enable these integrations you will perform the following actions:

• Enable Cross-Account Access

  • Create an IAM role in your account(s)

  • Attach policies to the role

• Enable the Dropzone Data Source

• Enable the Dropzone Alert Source

The Dropzone platform has a dedicated IAM role for your organization. You enable cross-account access for this IAM to gain access to specific roles within your AWS accounts.

These instructions will work for any account, but you may have different methods for applying them, for example if you are using Control Tower or deploying changes via Infrastructure as Code.

You must complete these steps for all AWS accounts you wish accessible by Dropzone.

Enable Cross-Account Access

You need to enable Dropzone to acces your AWS environments for it to pull alerts and run investigations. There are several ways you can achieve this:

Toolset	Documentation	Description
Set up roles via the Management Console	documentation	Set up roles and create policies in the AWS Console. Several manual steps, highly documented
Use AWS CloudFormation	documentation	Set up roles by running Dropzone's CFTs and copy/pasting in a small number of values
Use Infrastructure-as-Code / CLI / etc	see your provider's information	You can create your own IaC by looking at the role and policy information in the management console documentation. Dropzone does not provide any pre-canned IaC code at this time.

The following policies are required for full Dropzone functionality:

Policy
AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess
AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess
AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess
AmazonRoute53ReadOnlyAccess
AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess
AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess
AmazonSSMReadOnlyAccess
IAMReadOnlyAccess

Be sure to use one of the above options to enable the cross-account access before moving on to enabling the integrations.

Enable The Dropzone Data Source Integration

The Data source integration allows Dropzone AI to interact with AWS APIs, for example pulling CloudWatch information, enumerating EC2 instances, for use in investigation analysis and interactive chat.

You'll need the following information:

Dropzone Field	Source
Default Region	The AWS region you run most of your services in
Role ARNs	The ARNs of the AWS roles you created in your accounts

To enable the Data Source integration, do the following:

• Navigate to your Dropzone AI tenant home page e.g. https://mycompany.dropzone.app

• In the bottom left hand corner, click Settings > Integrations

Integrations Dropdown

• Click "Available"

Click Available

• In the Search bar, search AWS, then click "Configure"

The AWS Tile

• Under the Data Source Header, enter an AWS region into the "Default Region" field

  • This should be the region that the majority of your monitored resources live in

• In the "Role ARNs", click "Add Item"

  • Paste the first the role ARNs that you created earlier

  • Continue to add Role ARNs until done

The AWS Data Source Configuration

• Click "Test & Save" to finish

If you have any errors engage your Dropzone AI support representative.

Enable The Dropzone Alert Source Integration

The Alert source integration allows Dropzone AI to pull alerts from AWS GuardDuty for investigation.

You'll need the following information:

Dropzone Field	Source
Default Region	The AWS region you run most of your services in
Role ARNs	The ARNs of the AWS roles you created in your accounts

• Navigate to your Dropzone AI tenant home page e.g. https://mycompany.dropzone.app

• In the bottom left hand corner, click Settings > Integrations

Integrations Dropdown

• Click "Available"

Click Available

• In the Search bar, search AWS, then click "Configure"

The AWS Tile

• Under the Alert Source heading, enter an AWS region into the "Default Region" field

  • This should be the region that the majority of your monitored resources live in

• In the "Role ARNs", click "Add Item"

  • Paste the first the role ARNs that you created earlier

  • Continue to add Role ARNs until done

The AWS Alert Source configuration (pt 1)

• Under "Minimum Severity Level", select the minimum alert severity level you want Dropzone to investigate alerts for

• If you wish, check the box next to "Include Archived Alerts" to allow Dropzone to investigate alerts that have been archived

• If you wish, you may exclude AWS GuardDuty alerts by finding type. To do so, click "Add Item" in the AWS "GuardDuty Alert Exclusions" section. Past in an alert type in the form of a string

The AWS Alert configuration (pt 2)

• Input your desired poll interval and poll lookback

• Click "Test & Save" to finish

The AWS Alert configuration (pt 3)

If you have any errors engage your Dropzone AI support representative.