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Use Traffic Mirroring in Amazon VPC for Security Purposes

In this lab, you will create a VPC traffic mirror session to capture all packets from your production EC2 instance for security purposes and future analysis. You will generate network traffic against the production instance manually, and then verify that your packet capture works as expected.

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Labs - Use Traffic Mirroring in Amazon VPC for Security Purposes

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Rating (27)
Level
Beginner
Duration
1h
Released
Jun 21, 2021

Lab author

Lab Author: Steve Mueller
Steve Mueller
Steve Mueller has spent the past 25 years providing in-person technical expertise to more than 300 of the largest enterprises across 5 continents. Steve spent his formative years with Java application servers while at BEA (now Oracle), where he built core devops and virtualization principles to achieve automation and scale. He has worked for VMware and most recently AWS, where he spent 7 years in a number of roles addressing customer needs. Steve is now the CTO of Hypersive, a startup focused on... more next-generation edge, end-user compute, and device virtualization. He has spoken at numerous industry tradeshows, including AWS re:Invent and Autodesk University, and is passionate about breaking difficult ideas down into easily understood concepts and educating others with that knowledge. He is an established AWS expert, loves anything serverless, believes API gateways are more transformative than we think, and gets energized when talking about containerization, IoT, and event bridges.
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Obtain Network Details for Production EC2 Instances

Get the IP address and network interface ID for the source and target EC2 instances.

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Install Packet Capture Software on the Target EC2 Instance

Configure the target with open-source software that will capture all network packets from the source.

Challenge

Create the VPC Traffic Mirror Target

Configure VPC to use the target EC2 instance as its traffic mirror target for the packet capture.

Challenge

Create the VPC Traffic Mirror Filter

Configure VPC to capture all inbound traffic for all protocols.

Challenge

Create the VPC Traffic Mirror Session

Configure VPC to capture the inbound network traffic for the source EC2 instance, using the filter for all protocols, and mirror to the target.

Challenge

Generate Network Traffic and Verify the Packet Capture

Run low-level network utilities against the source EC2 instance to create network traffic, and view the packet capture output on the target.

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On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.

Recommended prerequisites

  • Amazon VPC
  • Amazon EC2
  • Linux cli commands (e.g., yum)
  • basic networking knowledge (e.g., UDP)

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