AWSCloudTrail - High Volume of Enumeration Events
Identifies identities executing an unusually high volume of enumeration API calls, which may indicate an attacker probing IAM permissions or mapping cloud infrastructure after compromise.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- IaaSIdentity ProviderOffice SuiteSaaS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 3 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- aws
- Log source service
- awscloudtrail
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- c9ccaebf-314c-446d-b3f6-314560ccb0e1
- Tagged by the source as
- Discovery
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1