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of the sheer number of intelligence signals , notifications generated by security tools .
AWS constantly improves the ability to observe and react to threat actors ’ evolving tactics , techniques , and procedures , as it discovers and monitors potentially harmful activities through MadPot , the globally-distributed network of honeypot threat sensors with automated response capabilities .
With a global network and internal tools such as MadPot , AWS receives and analyses thousands of different kinds of event signals in real time . For example , MadPot observes more than 100 million potential threats every day around the world , with approximately 500,000 of those observed activities classified as malicious .
This means high-fidelity findings produce valuable threat intelligence that can be acted on quickly to protect customers around the world from harmful and malicious online activities . AWS high-fidelity intelligence also generates real-time findings that are ingested into intelligent threat detection security service Amazon GuardDuty , which automatically detects threats for millions of AWS accounts .
Identification of malicious domains , and physical IP addresses on the Internet
Questions like these indicate that CISOs understand that effective threat intelligence is critical to their organisations ’ success and resilience .
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