This guide focuses on monitoring and analyzing security events within cloud environments using audit logs and security analytics. It explains how services such as AWS CloudTrail capture detailed records of user activity, API calls, and system changes across cloud accounts. These logs provide critical information for detecting misconfigurations, unauthorized access attempts, and potential security breaches. The document highlights important events to monitor, including changes to IAM permissions, S3 bucket policies, and networking configurations. By ingesting these logs into Datadog’s security monitoring platform, organizations can correlate security signals with infrastructure data and detect threats in real time. Automated detection rules based on frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK help teams i

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