Overview of GuardDuty API

The AWS GuardDuty Detector API empowers you to secure AWS accounts against cyber threats and unauthorized activities. This tool allows you to manage and monitor security detectors within the GuardDuty service. These detectors function as virtual guards, continuously scanning your AWS environment to identify potential risks. Through the GuardDuty Detector API, you can create new detectors, retrieve information about existing ones, update their settings, and remove detectors when they are no longer needed. Creating a detector involves customizing options such as enabling or disabling specific features, defining the frequency of threat update notifications, and employing labels for efficient detector organization. By using this API, software engineers can automate detector management, gaining valuable insights into potential security risks within their AWS resources. This tool ensures the ongoing security and protection of your AWS accounts against diverse online threats. For further information, please consult the official [AWS GuardDuty User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/what-is-guardduty.html).
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Getting Started with GuardDuty API

The first step in securing your AWS accounts involves creating a detector that actively monitors your AWS environment, identifying and flagging potential threats.
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Before You Begin

First, [**create an AWS account**](https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start/email) or [**sign in**](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/management/signin). The next step is to enable GuardDuty in your account. **To enable GuardDuty** 1. Open the GuardDuty console [**here**](https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/) 2. Choose **Get Started**. 3. Choose **Enable GuardDuty**.
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Authentication

To authenticate, create an API key that provides access to the operations available on the detector endpoints.
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Create a detector

Creating a detector is the first step to secure your AWS accounts. In AWS GuardDuty, a detector actively monitors your environment, identifying suspicious activity and alerting you to potential threats.
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All Detector Operations

Once you have created at least one detector, you can perform four additional operations on the detector endpoints:

Retrieve IDs

This operation allows users to obtain a list of the IDs associated with all existing detector resources.

Retrieve One

This operation retrieves a detector based on a specified detectorId.

Update

This operation enables users to modify the properties of a specific detector identified by its detectorId.

Delete

This operation allows users to delete a specific detector identified by its detectorId.

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