describe-security-profile
Description
Gets information about a Device Defender security profile.
Requires permission to access the DescribeSecurityProfile action.
See also: AWS API Documentation
Synopsis
describe-security-profile
--security-profile-name <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]
Options
--security-profile-name (string)
--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.
--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.
Global Options
--debug (boolean)
Turn on debug logging.
--endpoint-url (string)
Override command’s default URL with the given URL.
--no-verify-ssl (boolean)
By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.
--no-paginate (boolean)
Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.
--output (string)
The formatting style for command output.
- json
- text
- table
- yaml
- yaml-stream
--query (string)
A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.
--profile (string)
Use a specific profile from your credential file.
--region (string)
The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.
--version (string)
Display the version of this tool.
--color (string)
Turn on/off color output.
- on
- off
- auto
--no-sign-request (boolean)
Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.
--ca-bundle (string)
The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.
--cli-read-timeout (int)
The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-connect-timeout (int)
The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-binary-format (string)
The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.
- base64
- raw-in-base64-out
--no-cli-pager (boolean)
Disable cli pager for output.
--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
Examples
Note
To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.
Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .
To get information about a security profile
The following describe-security-profile example gets information about the AWS IoT Device Defender security profile named PossibleIssue.
aws iot describe-security-profile \
--security-profile-name PossibleIssue
Output:
{
"securityProfileName": "PossibleIssue",
"securityProfileArn": "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:securityprofile/PossibleIssue",
"securityProfileDescription": "check to see if authorization fails 10 times in 5 minutes or if cellular bandwidth exceeds 128",
"behaviors": [
{
"name": "CellularBandwidth",
"metric": "aws:message-byte-size",
"criteria": {
"comparisonOperator": "greater-than",
"value": {
"count": 128
},
"consecutiveDatapointsToAlarm": 1,
"consecutiveDatapointsToClear": 1
}
},
{
"name": "Authorization",
"metric": "aws:num-authorization-failures",
"criteria": {
"comparisonOperator": "greater-than",
"value": {
"count": 10
},
"durationSeconds": 300,
"consecutiveDatapointsToAlarm": 1,
"consecutiveDatapointsToClear": 1
}
}
],
"version": 1,
"creationDate": 1560278102.528,
"lastModifiedDate": 1560278102.528
}
For more information, see Detect Commands in the AWS IoT Developer Guide.
Output
securityProfileName -> (string)
securityProfileArn -> (string)
securityProfileDescription -> (string)
behaviors -> (list)
Specifies the behaviors that, when violated by a device (thing), cause an alert.
(structure)
A Device Defender security profile behavior.
name -> (string)
metric -> (string)
metricDimension -> (structure)
The dimension for a metric in your behavior. For example, using a TOPIC_FILTER dimension, you can narrow down the scope of the metric to only MQTT topics where the name matches the pattern specified in the dimension. This can’t be used with custom metrics.
dimensionName -> (string)
operator -> (string)
dimensionValues of a dimension are interpreted. For example, for dimension type TOPIC_FILTER, the IN operator, a message will be counted only if its topic matches one of the topic filters. With NOT_IN operator, a message will be counted only if it doesn’t match any of the topic filters. The operator is optional: if it’s not provided (is null ), it will be interpreted as IN .criteria -> (structure)
The criteria that determine if a device is behaving normally in regard to the metric .
Note
In the IoT console, you can choose to be sent an alert through Amazon SNS when IoT Device Defender detects that a device is behaving anomalously.comparisonOperator -> (string)
The operator that relates the thing measured (metric ) to the criteria (containing a value or statisticalThreshold ). Valid operators include:
-
string-list:in-setandnot-in-set -
number-list:in-setandnot-in-set -
ip-address-list:in-cidr-setandnot-in-cidr-set -
number:less-than,less-than-equals,greater-than, andgreater-than-equals
value -> (structure)
The value to be compared with the metric .
count -> (long)
comparisonOperator calls for a numeric value, use this to specify that numeric value to be compared with the metric .cidrs -> (list)
If the comparisonOperator calls for a set of CIDRs, use this to specify that set to be compared with the metric .
(string)
ports -> (list)
If the comparisonOperator calls for a set of ports, use this to specify that set to be compared with the metric .
(integer)
number -> (double)
numbers -> (list)
The numeral values of a metric.
(double)
strings -> (list)
The string values of a metric.
(string)
durationSeconds -> (integer)
NUM_MESSAGES_SENT ). For a statisticalThreshhold metric comparison, measurements from all devices are accumulated over this time duration before being used to calculate percentiles, and later, measurements from an individual device are also accumulated over this time duration before being given a percentile rank. Cannot be used with list-based metric datatypes.consecutiveDatapointsToAlarm -> (integer)
consecutiveDatapointsToClear -> (integer)
statisticalThreshold -> (structure)
A statistical ranking (percentile)that indicates a threshold value by which a behavior is determined to be in compliance or in violation of the behavior.
statistic -> (string)
durationSeconds ) from all reporting devices in your account and statistical ranks are calculated. Then, the measurements from a device are collected over the same period. If the accumulated measurements from the device fall above or below (comparisonOperator ) the value associated with the percentile specified, then the device is considered to be in compliance with the behavior, otherwise a violation occurs.mlDetectionConfig -> (structure)
The configuration of an ML Detect
confidenceLevel -> (string)
Low , Medium , or High .suppressAlerts -> (boolean)
exportMetric -> (boolean)
alertTargets -> (map)
Where the alerts are sent. (Alerts are always sent to the console.)
key -> (string)
value -> (structure)
A structure containing the alert target ARN and the role ARN.
alertTargetArn -> (string)
roleArn -> (string)
additionalMetricsToRetain -> (list)
A list of metrics whose data is retained (stored). By default, data is retained for any metric used in the profile’s behaviors , but it is also retained for any metric specified here.
(string)
additionalMetricsToRetainV2 -> (list)
A list of metrics whose data is retained (stored). By default, data is retained for any metric used in the profile’s behaviors, but it is also retained for any metric specified here.
(structure)
The metric you want to retain. Dimensions are optional.
metric -> (string)
metricDimension -> (structure)
The dimension of a metric. This can’t be used with custom metrics.
dimensionName -> (string)
operator -> (string)
dimensionValues of a dimension are interpreted. For example, for dimension type TOPIC_FILTER, the IN operator, a message will be counted only if its topic matches one of the topic filters. With NOT_IN operator, a message will be counted only if it doesn’t match any of the topic filters. The operator is optional: if it’s not provided (is null ), it will be interpreted as IN .exportMetric -> (boolean)
MetricToRetain when it’s true.version -> (long)
creationDate -> (timestamp)
lastModifiedDate -> (timestamp)
metricsExportConfig -> (structure)
Specifies the MQTT topic and role ARN required for metric export.
mqttTopic -> (string)
roleArn -> (string)
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