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@lendi/ralph
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Ralph is a CLI tool that automates security incident response for AWS resources.
It's the tool you use when this happens:
Ralph loads and executes a collection of pre-defined runbook to automate incident response.
Removing IAM Instance Profile - Detaches the current IAM Instance Profile of an instance.
Enable Termination Protection - Enables termination protection for an instance. This gives an extra step to prevent accidental termination of an instance.
Set Shutdown Behavior to Stop - Sets shutdown behavior to stop guarantees that the shutting down the instance will not result to termination of the instance.
Taking EBS Snapshot and Export - Creates latest EBS snapshot from volumes
of an instance and possibly send it to a quarantine AWS account.
See Setup
section below on how to configure env variables for this runbook.
To install Ralph using NPM, run:
$ npm i @lendi/ralph
/usr/local/bin/ralph -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@lendi/ralph/lib/index.js
+ @lendi/ralph@1.0.3
added 125 packages from 126 contributors in 7.843s
See https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lendi/ralph.
Setup your AWS credentials (~/.aws/credentials
) by following this guide.
Add AWS_REGION in your environment variables. Here's an example with AWS_REGION set to "ap-southeast-2":
$ export AWS_REGION="ap-southeast-2"
...
EBS Snapshot export runbook:
export QUARANTINE_AWS_REGION="ap-southeast-1"
export QUARANTINE_AWS_ACCOUNTS="0000,0001,0002"
export TRANSFER_ALL_SNAPSHOTS="false"
QUARANTINE_AWS_REGION
- the region used for the quarantine AWS
account. If not defined, this will use the AWS REGION of
the current AWS account.
QUARANTINE_AWS_ACCOUNTS
- list of quarantine AWS account
whom to share the snapshots to. If not defined,
the current AWS account will be treated as
the quarantine AWS account.
TRANSFER_ALL_SNAPSHOTS
- decides whether to
copy and share just the latest snapshot or all of them.
execute
command$ ralph execute
? Which instance do you want to lock down?
i-00000000000000001 (kafka-instance)
i-00000000000000002
i-00000000000000003
❯ i-00000000000000004 (vulnerable-instance)
i-00000000000000005 (machine-learning-instance)
i-00000000000000006
i-00000000000000007
(Move up and down to reveal more choices)
? Which instance do you want to lock down? i-00000000000000004(vulnerable-instance)
{"level":30,"time":1574209361754,"pid":20037,"hostname":"","msg":"RemoveIamInstanceProfile:
This will disassociate the following Iam Instance Profiles: ['arn:aws:iam::000000000000:instance-profile/SampleIamInstanceProfile']
for i-00000000000000004","v":1}
{"level":30,"time":1574209361870,"pid":20037,"hostname":"",
"msg":"setShutdownBehaviorToTerminate: The attribute instanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior
will be changed from 'terminate' to 'stop' for i-00000000000000004.","v":1}
{"level":30,"time":1574209361987,"pid":20037,"hostname":"",
"msg":"enableTerminationProtection: The attribute disableApiTermination will be changed
from false to true for i-00000000000000004.","v":1}
? Do you want to proceed with the changes? Yes
{"level":30,"time":1574209377228,"pid":20037,"hostname":"","msg":"Disassociated IAM
Instance Profile for i-00000000000000004.","v":1}
{"level":30,"time":1574209377413,"pid":20037,"hostname":"","msg":"Changed shutdown
behavior to stop for i-00000000000000004.","v":1}
{"level":30,"time":1574209377547,"pid":20037,"hostname":"","msg":"Changed termination
protection to true for i-00000000000000004.","v":1}
Retrieving EBS snapshots and exporting to separate AWS account for quarantine.
Security Groups / VPC Lockdown
Retrieving EC2 Memory Acquisition and export options
Use more user-friendly logger
FAQs
ralph is a CLI tool that automates security incident response
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