Detective uses machine learning and purpose-built visualizations to help you to\nanalyze and investigate security issues across your Amazon Web Services (Amazon Web Services) workloads. Detective automatically extracts time-based events such\nas login attempts, API calls, and network traffic from CloudTrail and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs. It also extracts findings detected by\nAmazon GuardDuty.
\nThe Detective API primarily supports the creation and management of behavior\ngraphs. A behavior graph contains the extracted data from a set of member accounts, and is\ncreated and managed by an administrator account.
\nTo add a member account to the behavior graph, the administrator account sends an\ninvitation to the account. When the account accepts the invitation, it becomes a member\naccount in the behavior graph.
\nDetective is also integrated with Organizations. The organization\nmanagement account designates the Detective administrator account for the\norganization. That account becomes the administrator account for the organization behavior\ngraph. The Detective administrator account is also the delegated administrator\naccount for Detective in Organizations.
\nThe Detective administrator account can enable any organization account as a\nmember account in the organization behavior graph. The organization accounts do not receive\ninvitations. The Detective administrator account can also invite other accounts to\nthe organization behavior graph.
\nEvery behavior graph is specific to a Region. You can only use the API to manage\nbehavior graphs that belong to the Region that is associated with the currently selected\nendpoint.
\nThe administrator account for a behavior graph can use the Detective API to do\nthe following:
\nEnable and disable Detective. Enabling Detective creates a new\nbehavior graph.
\nView the list of member accounts in a behavior graph.
\nAdd member accounts to a behavior graph.
\nRemove member accounts from a behavior graph.
\nApply tags to a behavior graph.
\nThe organization management account can use the Detective API to select the\ndelegated administrator for Detective.
\nThe Detective administrator account for an organization can use the Detective API to do the following:
\nPerform all of the functions of an administrator account.
\nDetermine whether to automatically enable new organization accounts as member\naccounts in the organization behavior graph.
\nAn invited member account can use the Detective API to do the following:
\nView the list of behavior graphs that they are invited to.
\nAccept an invitation to contribute to a behavior graph.
\nDecline an invitation to contribute to a behavior graph.
\nRemove their account from a behavior graph.
\nAll API actions are logged as CloudTrail events. See Logging Detective API Calls with CloudTrail.
\nWe replaced the term \"master account\" with the term \"administrator account\". An\nadministrator account is used to centrally manage multiple accounts. In the case of\nDetective, the administrator account manages the accounts in their behavior\ngraph.
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