Objective:

You can use open-source tools to monitor network traffic from Amazon EC2 instances. In this activity we will briefly go over how to use Suricata. For more information see the Suricata website.

  • We will build on top of previous activity: Setup VPC Traffic Mirroring
  • Suricata is already installed on the destination instance
  • We will configure http rule on Suricata.
  • From client we will initiate port 80 (http) traffic and look at the logs to see http rule being triggered.