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Great customer experience provides a competitive edge and helps create brand differentiation. As per the Forrester report, The State Of Customer Obsession, 2022, being customer-first can make a sizable impact on an organization’s balance sheet, as organizations embracing this methodology are surpassing their peers in revenue growth. Despite contact centers being under constant pressure to do more with less while improving customer experiences, 80% of companies plan to increase their level of investment in Customer Experience (CX) to provide a differentiated customer experience. Rapid innovation and improvement in generative AI has captured our mind and attention and as per McKinsey & Company’s estimate, applying generative AI to customer care functions could increase productivity at a value ranging from 30–45% of current function costs.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides business analysts with a visual point-and-click interface that allows you to build models and generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions without requiring any ML experience or coding. In October 2023, SageMaker Canvas announced support for foundation models among its ready-to-use models, powered by Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. This allows you to use natural language with a conversational chat interface to perform tasks such as creating novel content including narratives, reports, and blog posts; summarizing notes and articles; and answering questions from a centralized knowledge base—all without writing a single line of code.

A call center agent’s job is to handle inbound and outbound customer calls and provide support or resolve issues while fielding dozens of calls daily. Keeping up with this volume while giving customers immediate answers is challenging without time to research between calls. Typically, call scripts guide agents through calls and outline addressing issues. Well-written scripts improve compliance, reduce errors, and increase efficiency by helping agents quickly understand problems and solutions.

In this post, we explore how generative AI in SageMaker Canvas can help solve common challenges customers may face when dealing with contact centers. We show how to use SageMaker Canvas to create a new call script or improve an existing call script, and explore how generative AI can help with reviewing existing interactions to bring insights that are difficult to obtain from traditional tools. As part of this post, we provide the prompts used to solve the tasks and discuss architectures to integrate these results in your AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) workflows.

Overview of solution

Generative AI foundation models can help create powerful call scripts in contact centers and enable organizations to do the following:

• Create consistent customer experiences with a unified knowledge repository to handle customer queries
• Reduce call handling time
• Enhance support team productivity
• Enable the support team with next best actions to eliminate errors and take the next best action

With SageMaker Canvas, you can choose from a larger selection of foundation models to create compelling call scripts. SageMaker Canvas also allows you to compare multiple models simultaneously, so a user can select the output that most fits their need for the specific task that they’re dealing with. To use generative AI-powered chatbots, the user first needs to provide a prompt, which is an instruction to tell the model what you intend to do.

In this post, we address four common use cases:

• Creating new call scripts
• Enhancing an existing call script
• Automating post-call tasks
• Post-call analytics

Throughout the post, we use large language models (LLMs) available in SageMaker Canvas powered by Amazon Bedrock. Specifically, we use Anthropic’s Claude 2 model, a powerful model with great performance for all kinds of natural language tasks. The examples are in English; however, Anthropic Claude 2 supports multiple languages. Refer to Anthropic Claude 2 to learn more. Finally, all of these results are reproducible with other Amazon Bedrock models, like Anthropic Claude Instant or Amazon Titan, as well as with SageMaker JumpStart models.

Prerequisites

For this post, make sure that you have set up an AWS account with appropriate resources and permissions. In particular, complete the following prerequisite steps:

1. Deploy an Amazon SageMaker domain. For instructions, refer to Onboard to Amazon SageMaker Domain.
2. Configure the permissions to set up and deploy SageMaker Canvas. For more details, refer to Setting Up and Managing Amazon SageMaker Canvas (for IT Administrators).
3. Configure cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policies for SageMaker Canvas. For more information, refer to Grant Your Users Permissions to Upload Local Files.
4. Add the permissions to use foundation models in SageMaker Canvas. For instructions, refer to Use generative AI with foundation models.

Note that the services that SageMaker Canvas uses to solve generative AI tasks are available in SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock. To use Amazon Bedrock, make sure you are using SageMaker Canvas in the Region where Amazon Bedrock is supported. Refer to Supported Regions to learn more.

Create a new call script

For this use case, a contact center analyst defines a call script with the help of one of the ready-to-use models available in SageMaker Canvas, entering an appropriate prompt, such as “Create a call script for an agent that helps customers with lost credit cards.” To implement this, after the organization’s cloud administrator grants single-sign access to the contact center analyst, complete the following steps:

1. On the SageMaker console, choose Canvas in the navigation pane.
2. Choose your domain and user profile and choose Open Canvas to open the SageMaker Canvas application.

3. Navigate to the Ready-to-use models section and choose Generate, extract and summarize content to open the chat console.
4. With the Anthropic Claude 2 model selected, enter your prompt “Create a call script for an agent that helps customers with lost credit cards” and press Enter.

The script obtained through generative AI is included in a document (such as TXT, HTML, or PDF), and added to a knowledge base that will guide contact center agents in their interactions with customers.

When using a cloud-based omnichannel contact center solution such as Amazon Connect, you can take advantage of AI/ML-powered features to improve customer satisfaction and agent efficiency. Amazon Connect Wisdom reduces the time agents spend searching for answers and enables quick resolution of customer issues by providing knowledge search and real-time recommendations while agents talk with customers. In this particular example, Amazon Connect Wisdom can synchronize with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a source of content for the knowledge base, thereby incorporating the call script generated with the help of SageMaker Canvas. For more information, refer to Amazon Connect Wisdom S3 Sync.

The following diagram illustrates this architecture.

When the customer calls the contact center, and either they go through an interactive voice response (IVR) or specific keywords are detected concerning the purpose of the call (for example, “lost” and “credit card”), Amazon Connect Wisdom will provide suggestions on how to handle the interaction to the agent, including the relevant call script that was generated by SageMaker Canvas.

With SageMaker Canvas generative AI, contact center analysts save time in the creation of call scripts, and are able to quickly try new prompts to tweak the scripts creation.

Enhance an existing call script

As per the following survey, 78% of customers feel that their call center experience improves when the customer service agent doesn’t sound as though they are reading from a script. SageMaker Canvas can use generative AI help you analyze the existing call script and suggest improvements to improve the quality of call scripts. For example, you may want to improve the call script to include more compliance, or make your script sound more polite.

To do so, choose New chat and select Claude 2 as your model. You can use the sample transcript generated in the previous use case and the prompt “I want you to act as a Contact Center Quality Assurance Analyst and improve the below call transcript to make it compliant and sound more polite.”

Automate post-call tasks

You can also use SageMaker Canvas generative AI to automate post-call work in call centers. Common use cases are call summarization, assistance in call logs completion, and personalized follow-up message creation. This can improve agent productivity and reduce the risk of errors, allowing them to focus on higher-value tasks such as customer engagement and relationship-building.

Choose New chat and select Claude 2 as your model. You can use the sample transcript generated in the previous use case and the prompt “Summarize the below Call transcript to highlight Customer issue, Agent actions, Call outcome and Customer sentiment.”

When using Amazon Connect as the contact center solution, you can implement the call recording and transcription by enabling Amazon Connect Contact Lens, which brings other analytics features such as sentiment analysis and sensitive data redaction. It also has summarization by highlighting key sentences in the transcript and labeling the issues, outcomes, and action items.

Using SageMaker Canvas allows you to go one step further and from a single workspace select from the ready-to-use models to analyze the call transcript or generate a summary, and even compare the results to find the model that best fits the specific use-case. The following diagram illustrates this solution architecture.

Customer post-call analytics

Another area where contact centers can take advantage of SageMaker Canvas is to understand interactions between customer and agents. As per the 2022 NICE WEM Global Survey, 58% of call center agents say they benefit very little from company coaching sessions. Agents can use SageMaker Canvas generative AI for customer sentiment analysis to further understand what alternative best actions they could have taken to improve customer satisfaction.

We follow similar steps as in the previous use cases. Choose New chat and select Claude 2. You can use the sample transcript generated in the previous use case and the prompt “I want you to act as a Contact Center Supervisor and critique and suggest improvements to the agent behavior in the customer conversation.”

Clean up

SageMaker Canvas will automatically shut down any SageMaker JumpStart models started under it after 2 hours of inactivity. Follow the instructions in this section to shut down these models sooner to save costs. Note that there is no need to shut down Amazon Bedrock models because they’re not deployed in your account.

1. To shut down the SageMaker JumpStart model, you can choose from two methods:
   1. Choose New chat, and on the model drop-down menu, choose Start up another model. Then, on the Foundation models page, under Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models, choose the model (such as Falcon-40B-Instruct) and in the right pane, choose Shut down model.
   2. If you are comparing multiple models simultaneously, on the results comparison page, choose the SageMaker JumpStart model’s options menu (three dots), then choose Shut down model.
2. Choose Log out in the left pane to log out of the SageMaker Canvas application to stop the consumption of SageMaker Canvas workspace instance hours. This will release all resources used by the workspace instance.

Conclusion

In this post, we analyzed how you can use SageMaker Canvas generative AI in contact centers to create hyper-personalized customer interactions, enhance contact center analysts and agents’ productivity, and bring insights that are hard to get from traditional tools. As illustrated by the different use-cases, SageMaker Canvas act as a single unified workspace, without needing to use different point products. With SageMaker Canvas generative AI, contact centers can improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. SageMaker Canvas generative AI empowers you to generate new and innovative solutions that have the potential to transform the contact center industry. You can also use generative AI to identify trends and insights in customer interactions, helping managers optimize their operations and improve customer satisfaction. Additionally, you can use generative AI to produce training data for new agents, allowing them to learn from synthetic examples and improve their performance more quickly.

Learn more about SageMaker Canvas features and get started today to leverage visual, no-code machine learning capabilities.

About the Authors

Davide Gallitelli is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for AI/ML. He is based in Brussels and works closely with customers all around the globe that are looking to adopt Low-Code/No-Code Machine Learning technologies, and Generative AI. He has been a developer since he was very young, starting to code at the age of 7. He started learning AI/ML at university, and has fallen in love with it since then.

Jose Rui Teixeira Nunes is a Solutions Architect at AWS, based in Brussels, Belgium. He currently helps European institutions and agencies on their cloud journey. He has over 20 years of expertise in information technology, with a strong focus on public sector organizations and communications solutions.

Anand Sharma is a Senior Partner Development Specialist for generative AI at AWS in Luxembourg with over 18 years of experience delivering innovative products and services in e-commerce, fintech, and finance. Prior to joining AWS, he worked at Amazon and led product management and business intelligence functions.

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Today we are excited to announce that the Llama Guard model is now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Llama Guard provides input and output safeguards in large language model (LLM) deployment. It’s one of the components under Purple Llama, Meta’s initiative featuring open trust and safety tools and evaluations to help developers build responsibly with AI models. Purple Llama brings together tools and evaluations to help the community build responsibly with generative AI models. The initial release includes a focus on cyber security and LLM input and output safeguards. Components within the Purple Llama project, including the Llama Guard model, are licensed permissively, enabling both research and commercial usage.

Now you can use the Llama Guard model within SageMaker JumpStart. SageMaker JumpStart is the machine learning (ML) hub of Amazon SageMaker that provides access to foundation models in addition to built-in algorithms and end-to-end solution templates to help you quickly get started with ML.

In this post, we walk through how to deploy the Llama Guard model and build responsible generative AI solutions.

Llama Guard model

Llama Guard is a new model from Meta that provides input and output guardrails for LLM deployments. Llama Guard is an openly available model that performs competitively on common open benchmarks and provides developers with a pretrained model to help defend against generating potentially risky outputs. This model has been trained on a mix of publicly available datasets to enable detection of common types of potentially risky or violating content that may be relevant to a number of developer use cases. Ultimately, the vision of the model is to enable developers to customize this model to support relevant use cases and to make it effortless to adopt best practices and improve the open ecosystem.

Llama Guard can be used as a supplemental tool for developers to integrate into their own mitigation strategies, such as for chatbots, content moderation, customer service, social media monitoring, and education. By passing user-generated content through Llama Guard before publishing or responding to it, developers can flag unsafe or inappropriate language and take action to maintain a safe and respectful environment.

Let’s explore how we can use the Llama Guard model in SageMaker JumpStart.

Foundation models in SageMaker

SageMaker JumpStart provides access to a range of models from popular model hubs, including Hugging Face, PyTorch Hub, and TensorFlow Hub, which you can use within your ML development workflow in SageMaker. Recent advances in ML have given rise to a new class of models known as foundation models, which are typically trained on billions of parameters and are adaptable to a wide category of use cases, such as text summarization, digital art generation, and language translation. Because these models are expensive to train, customers want to use existing pre-trained foundation models and fine-tune them as needed, rather than train these models themselves. SageMaker provides a curated list of models that you can choose from on the SageMaker console.

You can now find foundation models from different model providers within SageMaker JumpStart, enabling you to get started with foundation models quickly. You can find foundation models based on different tasks or model providers, and easily review model characteristics and usage terms. You can also try out these models using a test UI widget. When you want to use a foundation model at scale, you can do so easily without leaving SageMaker by using pre-built notebooks from model providers. Because the models are hosted and deployed on AWS, you can rest assured that your data, whether used for evaluating or using the model at scale, is never shared with third parties.

Let’s explore how we can use the Llama Guard model in SageMaker JumpStart.

Discover the Llama Guard model in SageMaker JumpStart

You can access Code Llama foundation models through SageMaker JumpStart in the SageMaker Studio UI and the SageMaker Python SDK. In this section, we go over how to discover the models in Amazon SageMaker Studio.

SageMaker Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides a single web-based visual interface where you can access purpose-built tools to perform all ML development steps, from preparing data to building, training, and deploying your ML models. For more details on how to get started and set up SageMaker Studio, refer to Amazon SageMaker Studio.

In SageMaker Studio, you can access SageMaker JumpStart, which contains pre-trained models, notebooks, and prebuilt solutions, under Prebuilt and automated solutions.

On the SageMaker JumpStart landing page, you can find the Llama Guard model by choosing the Meta hub or searching for Llama Guard.

You can select from a variety of Llama model variants, including Llama Guard, Llama-2, and Code Llama.

You can choose the model card to view details about the model such as license, data used to train, and how to use. You will also find a Deploy option, which will take you to a landing page where you can test inference with an example payload.

Deploy the model with the SageMaker Python SDK

You can find the code showing the deployment of Llama Guard on Amazon JumpStart and an example of how to use the deployed model in this GitHub notebook.

In the following code, we specify the SageMaker model hub model ID and model version to use when deploying Llama Guard:

model_id = "meta-textgeneration-llama-guard-7b"
model_version = "1.*"

You can now deploy the model using SageMaker JumpStart. The following code uses the default instance ml.g5.2xlarge for the inference endpoint. You can deploy the model on other instance types by passing instance_type in the JumpStartModel class. The deployment might take a few minutes. For a successful deployment, you must manually change the accept_eula argument in the model’s deploy method to True.

from sagemaker.jumpstart.model import JumpStartModel

model = JumpStartModel(model_id=model_id, model_version=model_version)
accept_eula = False  # change to True to accept EULA for successful model deployment
try:
    predictor = model.deploy(accept_eula=accept_eula)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

This model is deployed using the Text Generation Inference (TGI) deep learning container. Inference requests support many parameters, including the following:

• max_length – The model generates text until the output length (which includes the input context length) reaches max_length. If specified, it must be a positive integer.
• max_new_tokens – The model generates text until the output length (excluding the input context length) reaches max_new_tokens. If specified, it must be a positive integer.
• num_beams – This indicates the number of beams used in the greedy search. If specified, it must be an integer greater than or equal to num_return_sequences.
• no_repeat_ngram_size – The model ensures that a sequence of words of no_repeat_ngram_size is not repeated in the output sequence. If specified, it must be a positive integer greater than 1.
• temperature – This parameter controls the randomness in the output. A higher temperature results in an output sequence with low-probability words, and a lower temperature results in an output sequence with high-probability words. If temperature is 0, it results in greedy decoding. If specified, it must be a positive float.
• early_stopping – If True, text generation is finished when all beam hypotheses reach the end of the sentence token. If specified, it must be Boolean.
• do_sample – If True, the model samples the next word as per the likelihood. If specified, it must be Boolean.
• top_k – In each step of text generation, the model samples from only the top_k most likely words. If specified, it must be a positive integer.
• top_p – In each step of text generation, the model samples from the smallest possible set of words with cumulative probability top_p. If specified, it must be a float between 0–1.
• return_full_text – If True, the input text will be part of the output generated text. If specified, it must be Boolean. The default value is False.
• stop – If specified, it must be a list of strings. Text generation stops if any one of the specified strings is generated.

Invoke a SageMaker endpoint

You may programmatically retrieve example payloads from the JumpStartModel object. This will help you quickly get started by observing pre-formatted instruction prompts that Llama Guard can ingest. See the following code:

example_payloads = model.retrieve_all_examples()

for payload in example_payloads:
    response = predictor.predict(payload.body)
    print("nInputn", payload.body, "nnOutputn", response[0]["generated_text"], "nn===============")

After you run the preceding example, you can see how your input and output would be formatted by Llama Guard:

Input
 {'inputs': "[INST] Task: Check if there is unsafe content in 'Agent' messages in conversations according our safety policy with the below categories.nn<BEGIN UNSAFE CONTENT CATEGORIES>nO1: Violence and Hate. nShould notn- Help people plan or engage in violence.n- Encourage people to engage in violence.n- Express hateful, derogatory, or demeaning sentiments against people based on sensitive personal characteristics like their race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.n- Encourage discrimination against people based on those characteristics and should not use slurs or create insults based on those characteristics.nCann- Provide information on violence and discrimination.n- Discuss the topics of hate and violence, and can discuss historical events involving violence.nO2: Sexual Content.nShould notn- Engage in sexually explicit (i.e., erotic) conversations and should not encourage people to engage in sexual activities.nCann- Discuss topics related to sexuality and sexual education.n- Provide general information regarding sexual activities.n- Provide guidance on topics related to sexual health.nO3: Criminal Planning.nShould notn- Help people plan or engage in criminal activities like theft, kidnapping, or financial crimes, especially when the person indicates that they may act on the information provided to them.n- Encourage people to engage in criminal activities or condone criminal behavior.nCann- Help people understand how crimes are committed, provided that the response is not so detailed that it could be used to provide a roadmap for future crimes.n- Help people understand how systems work that are used to prevent crimes, provided those descriptions do not provide detailed information on how to defeat those systems.nO4: Guns and Illegal Weapons.nShould notn- Assist in the planning or execution of firearm or illegal weapons crimes, especially when the person indicates that they may act on the information provided to them.n- Encourage people to engage in firearm or illegal weapons crimes or condone such behavior.nCann- Discuss firearms and the arguments for and against firearm ownership.nO5: Regulated or Controlled Substances.nShould notn- Encourage or assist people in the trafficking, consumption, or use of regulated or controlled substances, including but not limited to illegal drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis.n- Assist or encourage people to create such substances when it is illegal to do so.nCann- Discuss the use of regulated or controlled substances, and can provide general information on those substances (ex: what their chemical composition is and what their effects are).n- Provide information on how those substances are manufactured, provided that the information is not so detailed as to provide step-by-step instructions for their creation.nO6: Self-Harm.nShould notn- Encourage people to harm themselves.n- Romanticize or condone self-harm or suicide.n- Provide information regarding the methods of suicide or self-harm.n- Provide any information or advice, other than information regarding appropriate health resources, to people who express or imply that they wish to harm themselves.nCann- Provide general information regarding self-harm and suicide (ex: statistics, the mental health challenges faced by those who take these actions).nShouldn- Provide information regarding appropriate health resources to people who imply or express the desire to harm themselves.n<END UNSAFE CONTENT CATEGORIES>nn<BEGIN CONVERSATION>nnUser: I forgot how to kill a process in Linux, can you help?nnAgent: Sure! To kill a process in Linux, you can use the kill command followed by the process ID (PID) of the process you want to terminate.nn<END CONVERSATION>nnProvide your safety assessment for Agent in the above conversation:n- First line must read 'safe' or 'unsafe'.n- If unsafe, a second line must include a comma-separated list of violated categories. [/INST]", 'parameters': {'max_new_tokens': 64, 'decoder_input_details': True, 'details': True}} 

Output
  safe

Similar to Llama-2, Llama Guard uses special tokens to indicate safety instructions to the model. In general, the payload should follow the below format:

<s>[INST] {user_prompt} [/INST]

User prompt shown as {user_prompt} above, can further include sections for content category definitions and conversations, which looks like the following:

<s>[INST] {task}

<BEGIN UNSAFE CONTENT CATEGORIES>
{unsafe_content_categories}
<END UNSAFE CONTENT CATEGORIES>

<BEGIN CONVERSATION>
{conversation}
<END CONVERSATION}

{instruction} [/INST]

In the next section, we discuss the recommended default values for the task, content category, and instruction definitions. The conversation should alternate between User and Agent text as follows:

User: {user_input_1}

Agent: {optional_agent_response_1}

User: {optional_user_input_2}

...

Moderate a conversation with Llama-2 Chat

You can now deploy a Llama-2 7B Chat model endpoint for conversational chat and then use Llama Guard to moderate input and output text coming from Llama-2 7B Chat.

We show you the example of the Llama-2 7B chat model’s input and output moderated through Llama Guard, but you may use Llama Guard for moderation with any LLM of your choice.

Deploy the model with the following code:

llm_model_id = "meta-textgeneration-llama-2-7b-f"
llm_model_version = "3.*"
model_llm = JumpStartModel(model_id=llm_model_id, model_version=llm_model_version)
predictor_llm = model_llm.deploy(accept_eula=True)

You can now define the Llama Guard task template. The unsafe content categories may be adjusted as desired for your specific use case. You can define in plain text the meaning of each content category, including which content should be flagged as unsafe and which content should be permitted as safe. See the following code:

TASK = "Task: Check if there is unsafe content in 'Agent' messages in conversations according our safety policy with the below categories."

INSTRUCTION = """
Provide your safety assessment for Agent in the above conversation:
- First line must read 'safe' or 'unsafe'.
- If unsafe, a second line must include a comma-separated list of violated categories."""

UNSAFE_CONTENT_CATEGORIES = """
O1: Violence and Hate. 
Should not
- Help people plan or engage in violence.
- Encourage people to engage in violence.
- Express hateful, derogatory, or demeaning sentiments against people based on sensitive personal characteristics like their race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.
- Encourage discrimination against people based on those characteristics and should not use slurs or create insults based on those characteristics.
Can
- Provide information on violence and discrimination.
- Discuss the topics of hate and violence, and can discuss historical events involving violence.
O2: Sexual Content.
Should not
- Engage in sexually explicit (i.e., erotic) conversations and should not encourage people to engage in sexual activities.
Can
- Discuss topics related to sexuality and sexual education.
- Provide general information regarding sexual activities.
- Provide guidance on topics related to sexual health.
O3: Criminal Planning.
Should not
- Help people plan or engage in criminal activities like theft, kidnapping, or financial crimes, especially when the person indicates that they may act on the information provided to them.
- Encourage people to engage in criminal activities or condone criminal behavior.
Can
- Help people understand how crimes are committed, provided that the response is not so detailed that it could be used to provide a roadmap for future crimes.
- Help people understand how systems work that are used to prevent crimes, provided those descriptions do not provide detailed information on how to defeat those systems.
O4: Guns and Illegal Weapons.
Should not
- Assist in the planning or execution of firearm or illegal weapons crimes, especially when the person indicates that they may act on the information provided to them.
- Encourage people to engage in firearm or illegal weapons crimes or condone such behavior.
Can
- Discuss firearms and the arguments for and against firearm ownership.
O5: Regulated or Controlled Substances.
Should not
- Encourage or assist people in the trafficking, consumption, or use of regulated or controlled substances, including but not limited to illegal drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis.
- Assist or encourage people to create such substances when it is illegal to do so.
Can
- Discuss the use of regulated or controlled substances, and can provide general information on those substances (ex: what their chemical composition is and what their effects are).
- Provide information on how those substances are manufactured, provided that the information is not so detailed as to provide step-by-step instructions for their creation.
O6: Self-Harm.
Should not
- Encourage people to harm themselves.
- Romanticize or condone self-harm or suicide.
- Provide information regarding the methods of suicide or self-harm.
- Provide any information or advice, other than information regarding appropriate health resources, to people who express or imply that they wish to harm themselves.
Can
- Provide general information regarding self-harm and suicide (ex: statistics, the mental health challenges faced by those who take these actions).
Should
- Provide information regarding appropriate health resources to people who imply or express the desire to harm themselves."""

Next, we define helper functions format_chat_messages and format_guard_messages to format the prompt for the chat model and for the Llama Guard model that required special tokens:

from itertools import cycle
from typing import Dict, List


def format_chat_messages(messages: List[Dict[str, str]]) -> List[str]:
    """Format messages for Llama-2 chat models.
    
    The model only supports 'system', 'user' and 'assistant' roles, starting with 'system', then 'user' and 
    alternating (u/a/u/a/u...). The last message must be from 'user'.
    """
    prompt: List[str] = []

    if messages[0]["role"] == "system":
        content = "".join(["<<SYS>>n", messages[0]["content"], "n<</SYS>>nn", messages[1]["content"]])
        messages = [{"role": messages[1]["role"], "content": content}] + messages[2:]

    for user, answer in zip(messages[::2], messages[1::2]):
        prompt.extend(["<s>", "[INST] ", (user["content"]).strip(), " [/INST] ", (answer["content"]).strip(), "</s>"])

    prompt.extend(["<s>", "[INST] ", (messages[-1]["content"]).strip(), " [/INST] "])

    return "".join(prompt)


def format_guard_messages(
    messages: List[Dict[str, str]],
    task: str = TASK,
    instruction: str = INSTRUCTION,
    unsafe_content_categories: str = UNSAFE_CONTENT_CATEGORIES,
) -> List[str]:
    """Format messages for Llama Guard models.
    
    The model only supports 'user' and 'assistant' roles, and must alternate (u/a/u/a/u...).
    """
    turn = cycle(["User", "Agent"])

    return "".join([
        "[INST] ",
        task,
        "nn<BEGIN UNSAFE CONTENT CATEGORIES>n",
        unsafe_content_categories,
        "n<END UNSAFE CONTENT CATEGORIES>nn<BEGIN CONVERSATION>",
        *[f"nn{next(turn)}: {message['content']}" for message in messages],
        "nn<END CONVERSATION>nn",
        instruction,
        " [/INST]"
    ])

You can then use these helper functions on an example message input prompt to run the example input through Llama Guard to determine if the message content is safe:

messages_input = [{"role": "user", "content": "I forgot how to kill a process in Linux, can you help?"}]
payload_input_guard = {"inputs": format_guard_messages(messages_input)}

response_input_guard = predictor.predict(payload_input_guard)

assert response_input_guard[0]["generated_text"].strip() == "safe"
print(response_input_guard)

The following output indicates that the message is safe. You may notice that the prompt includes words that may be associated with violence, but, in this case, Llama Guard is able to understand the context with respect to the instructions and unsafe category definitions we provided earlier and determine that it’s a safe prompt and not related to violence.

[{'generated_text': ' safe'}]

Now that you have confirmed that the input text is determined to be safe with respect to your Llama Guard content categories, you can pass this payload to the deployed Llama-2 7B model to generate text:

payload_input_llm = {"inputs": format_chat_messages(messages_input), "parameters": {"max_new_tokens": 128}}

response_llm = predictor_llm.predict(payload_input_llm)

print(response_llm)

The following is the response from the model:

[{'generated_text': 'Of course! In Linux, you can use the `kill` command to terminate a process. Here are the basic syntax and options you can use:nn1. `kill <PID>` - This will kill the process with the specified process ID (PID). Replace `<PID>` with the actual process ID you want to kill.n2. `kill -9 <PID>` - This will kill the process with the specified PID immediately, without giving it a chance to clean up. This is the most forceful way to kill a process.n3. `kill -15 <PID>` -'}]

Finally, you may wish to confirm that the response text from the model is determined to contain safe content. Here, you extend the LLM output response to the input messages and run this whole conversation through Llama Guard to ensure the conversation is safe for your application:

messages_output = messages_input.copy()
messages_output.extend([{"role": "assistant", "content": response_llm[0]["generated_text"]}])
payload_output = {"inputs": format_guard_messages(messages_output)}

response_output_guard = predictor.predict(payload_output)

assert response_output_guard[0]["generated_text"].strip() == "safe"
print(response_output_guard)

You may see the following output, indicating that response from the chat model is safe:

[{'generated_text': ' safe'}]

Clean up

After you have tested the endpoints, make sure you delete the SageMaker inference endpoints and the model to avoid incurring charges.

Conclusion

In this post, we showed you how you can moderate inputs and outputs using Llama Guard and put guardrails for inputs and outputs from LLMs in SageMaker JumpStart.

As AI continues to advance, it’s critical to prioritize responsible development and deployment. Tools like Purple Llama’s CyberSecEval and Llama Guard are instrumental in fostering safe innovation, offering early risk identification and mitigation guidance for language models. These should be ingrained in the AI design process to harness its full potential of LLMs ethically from Day 1.

Try out Llama Guard and other foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart today and let us know your feedback!

This guidance is for informational purposes only. You should still perform your own independent assessment, and take measures to ensure that you comply with your own specific quality control practices and standards, and the local rules, laws, regulations, licenses, and terms of use that apply to you, your content, and the third-party model referenced in this guidance. AWS has no control or authority over the third-party model referenced in this guidance, and does not make any representations or warranties that the third-party model is secure, virus-free, operational, or compatible with your production environment and standards. AWS does not make any representations, warranties, or guarantees that any information in this guidance will result in a particular outcome or result.

About the authors

Dr. Kyle Ulrich is an Applied Scientist with the Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithms team. His research interests include scalable machine learning algorithms, computer vision, time series, Bayesian non-parametrics, and Gaussian processes. His PhD is from Duke University and he has published papers in NeurIPS, Cell, and Neuron.

Evan Kravitz is a software engineer at Amazon Web Services, working on SageMaker JumpStart. He is interested in the confluence of machine learning with cloud computing. Evan received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2021, he presented a paper on adversarial neural networks at the ICLR conference. In his free time, Evan enjoys cooking, traveling, and going on runs in New York City.

Rachna Chadha is a Principal Solution Architect AI/ML in Strategic Accounts at AWS. Rachna is an optimist who believes that ethical and responsible use of AI can improve society in the future and bring economic and social prosperity. In her spare time, Rachna likes spending time with her family, hiking, and listening to music.

Dr. Ashish Khetan is a Senior Applied Scientist with Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithms and helps develop machine learning algorithms. He got his PhD from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is an active researcher in machine learning and statistical inference, and has published many papers in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, JMLR, ACL, and EMNLP conferences.

Karl Albertsen leads product, engineering, and science for Amazon SageMaker Algorithms and JumpStart, SageMaker’s machine learning hub. He is passionate about applying machine learning to unlock business value.

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Customers are faced with increasing security threats and vulnerabilities across infrastructure and application resources as their digital footprint has expanded and the business impact of those digital assets has grown. A common cybersecurity challenge has been two-fold:

• Consuming logs from digital resources that come in different formats and schemas and automating the analysis of threat findings based on those logs.
• Whether logs are coming from Amazon Web Services (AWS), other cloud providers, on-premises, or edge devices, customers need to centralize and standardize security data.

Furthermore, the analytics for identifying security threats must be capable of scaling and evolving to meet a changing landscape of threat actors, security vectors, and digital assets.

A novel approach to solve this complex security analytics scenario combines the ingestion and storage of security data using Amazon Security Lake and analyzing the security data with machine learning (ML) using Amazon SageMaker. Amazon Security Lake is a purpose-built service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud and on-premises sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your AWS account. Amazon Security Lake automates the central management of security data, normalizes logs from integrated AWS services and third-party services and manages the lifecycle of data with customizable retention and also automates storage tiering. Amazon Security Lake ingests log files in the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) format, with support for partners such as Cisco Security, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and OCSF logs from resources outside your AWS environment. This unified schema streamlines downstream consumption and analytics because the data follows a standardized schema and new sources can be added with minimal data pipeline changes. After the security log data is stored in Amazon Security Lake, the question becomes how to analyze it. An effective approach to analyzing the security log data is using ML; specifically, anomaly detection, which examines activity and traffic data and compares it against a baseline. The baseline defines what activity is statistically normal for that environment. Anomaly detection scales beyond an individual event signature, and it can evolve with periodic retraining; traffic classified as abnormal or anomalous can then be acted upon with prioritized focus and urgency. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables customers to prepare data and build, train, and deploy ML models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows, including no-code offerings for business analysts. SageMaker supports two built-in anomaly detection algorithms: IP Insights and Random Cut Forest. You can also use SageMaker to create your own custom outlier detection model using algorithms sourced from multiple ML frameworks.

In this post, you learn how to prepare data sourced from Amazon Security Lake, and then train and deploy an ML model using an IP Insights algorithm in SageMaker. This model identifies anomalous network traffic or behavior which can then be composed as part of a larger end-to-end security solution. Such a solution could invoke a multi-factor authentication (MFA) check if a user is signing in from an unusual server or at an unusual time, notify staff if there is a suspicious network scan coming from new IP addresses, alert administrators if unusual network protocols or ports are used, or enrich the IP insights classification result with other data sources such as Amazon GuardDuty and IP reputation scores to rank threat findings.

Solution overview

Figure 1 – Solution Architecture

1. Enable Amazon Security Lake with AWS Organizations for AWS accounts, AWS Regions, and external IT environments.
2. Set up Security Lake sources from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs and Amazon Route53 DNS logs to the Amazon Security Lake S3 bucket.
3. Process Amazon Security Lake log data using a SageMaker Processing job to engineer features. Use Amazon Athena to query structured OCSF log data from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) through AWS Glue tables managed by AWS LakeFormation.
4. Train a SageMaker ML model using a SageMaker Training job that consumes the processed Amazon Security Lake logs.
5. Deploy the trained ML model to a SageMaker inference endpoint.
6. Store new security logs in an S3 bucket and queue events in Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
7. Subscribe an AWS Lambda function to the SQS queue.
8. Invoke the SageMaker inference endpoint using a Lambda function to classify security logs as anomalies in real time.

Prerequisites

To deploy the solution, you must first complete the following prerequisites:

1. Enable Amazon Security Lake within your organization or a single account with both VPC Flow Logs and Route 53 resolver logs enabled.
2. Ensure that the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role used by SageMaker processing jobs and notebooks has been granted an IAM policy including the Amazon Security Lake subscriber query access permission for the managed Amazon Security lake database and tables managed by AWS Lake Formation. This processing job should be run from within an analytics or security tooling account to remain compliant with AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA).
3. Ensure that the IAM role used by the Lambda function has been granted an IAM policy including the Amazon Security Lake subscriber data access permission.

Deploy the solution

To set up the environment, complete the following steps:

1. Launch a SageMaker Studio or SageMaker Jupyter notebook with a ml.m5.large instance. Note: Instance size is dependent on the datasets you use.
2. Clone the GitHub repository.
3. Open the notebook 01_ipinsights/01-01.amazon-securitylake-sagemaker-ipinsights.ipy.
4. Implement the provided IAM policy and corresponding IAM trust policy for your SageMaker Studio Notebook instance to access all the necessary data in S3, Lake Formation, and Athena.

This blog walks through the relevant portion of code within the notebook after it’s deployed in your environment.

Install the dependencies and import the required library

Use the following code to install dependencies, import the required libraries, and create the SageMaker S3 bucket needed for data processing and model training. One of the required libraries, awswrangler, is an AWS SDK for pandas dataframe that is used to query the relevant tables within the AWS Glue Data Catalog and store the results locally in a dataframe.

import boto3
import botocore
import os
import sagemaker
import pandas as pd

%conda install openjdk -y
%pip install pyspark 
%pip install sagemaker_pyspark

from pyspark import SparkContext, SparkConf
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

bucket = sagemaker.Session().default_bucket()
prefix = "sagemaker/ipinsights-vpcflowlogs"
execution_role = sagemaker.get_execution_role()
region = boto3.Session().region_name
seclakeregion = region.replace("-","_")
# check if the bucket exists
try:
    boto3.Session().client("s3").head_bucket(Bucket=bucket)
except botocore.exceptions.ParamValidationError as e:
    print("Missing S3 bucket or invalid S3 Bucket")
except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e:
    if e.response["Error"]["Code"] == "403":
        print(f"You don't have permission to access the bucket, {bucket}.")
    elif e.response["Error"]["Code"] == "404":
        print(f"Your bucket, {bucket}, doesn't exist!")
    else:
        raise
else:
    print(f"Training input/output will be stored in: s3://{bucket}/{prefix}")

Query the Amazon Security Lake VPC flow log table

This portion of code uses the AWS SDK for pandas to query the AWS Glue table related to VPC Flow Logs. As mentioned in the prerequisites, Amazon Security Lake tables are managed by AWS Lake Formation, so all proper permissions must be granted to the role used by the SageMaker notebook. This query will pull multiple days of VPC flow log traffic. The dataset used during development of this blog was small. Depending on the scale of your use case, you should be aware of the limits of the AWS SDK for pandas. When considering terabyte scale, you should consider AWS SDK for pandas support for Modin.

ocsf_df = wr.athena.read_sql_query("SELECT src_endpoint.instance_uid as instance_id, src_endpoint.ip as sourceip FROM amazon_security_lake_table_"+seclakeregion+"_vpc_flow_1_0 WHERE src_endpoint.ip IS NOT NULL AND src_endpoint.instance_uid IS NOT NULL AND src_endpoint.instance_uid != '-' AND src_endpoint.ip != '-'", database="amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1", 
ctas_approach=False, 
unload_approach=True, 
s3_output=f"s3://{bucket}/unload/parquet/updated") 
ocsf_df.head()

When you view the data frame, you will see an output of a single column with common fields that can be found in the Network Activity (4001) class of the OCSF.

Normalize the Amazon Security Lake VPC flow log data into the required training format for IP Insights.

The IP Insights algorithm requires that the training data be in CSV format and contain two columns. The first column must be an opaque string that corresponds to an entity’s unique identifier. The second column must be the IPv4 address of the entity’s access event in decimal-dot notation. In the sample dataset for this blog, the unique identifier is the Instance IDs of EC2 instances associated to the instance_id value within the dataframe. The IPv4 address will be derived from the src_endpoint. Based on the way the Amazon Athena query was created, the imported data is already in the correct format for training an IP Insights model, so no additional feature engineering is required. If you modify the query in another way, you may need to incorporate additional feature engineering.

Query and normalize the Amazon Security Lake Route 53 resolver log table

Just as you did above, the next step of the notebook runs a similar query against the Amazon Security Lake Route 53 resolver table. Since you will be using all OCSF compliant data within this notebook, any feature engineering tasks remain the same for Route 53 resolver logs as they were for VPC Flow Logs. You then combine the two data frames into a single data frame that is used for training. Since the Amazon Athena query loads the data locally in the correct format, no further feature engineering is required.

ocsf_rt_53_df = wr.athena.read_sql_query("SELECT src_endpoint.instance_uid as instance_id, src_endpoint.ip as sourceip FROM amazon_security_lake_table_"+seclakeregion+"_route53_1_0 WHERE src_endpoint.ip IS NOT NULL AND src_endpoint.instance_uid IS NOT NULL AND src_endpoint.instance_uid != '-' AND src_endpoint.ip != '-'", database="amazon_security_lake_glue_db_us_east_1", 
ctas_approach=False, 
unload_approach=True, 
s3_output=f"s3://{bucket}/unload/rt53parquet")
ocsf_rt_53_df.head()
ocsf_complete = pd.concat([ocsf_df, ocsf_rt_53_df], ignore_index=True)

Get IP Insights training image and train the model with the OCSF data

In this next portion of the notebook, you train an ML model based on the IP Insights algorithm and use the consolidated dataframe of OCSF from different types of logs. A list of the IP Insights hyperparmeters can be found here. In the example below we selected hyperparameters that outputted the best performing model, for example, 5 for epoch and 128 for vector_dim. Since the training dataset for our sample was relatively small, we utilized a ml.m5.large instance. Hyperparameters and your training configurations such as instance count and instance type should be chosen based on your objective metrics and your training data size. One capability that you can utilize within Amazon SageMaker to find the best version of your model is Amazon SageMaker automatic model tuning that searches for the best model across a range of hyperparameter values.

training_path = f"s3://{bucket}/{prefix}/training/training_input.csv"
wr.s3.to_csv(ocsf_complete, training_path, header=False, index=False)
from sagemaker.amazon.amazon_estimator 
import image_uris

image = sagemaker.image_uris.get_training_image_uri(boto3.Session().region_name,"ipinsights")

ip_insights = sagemaker.estimator.Estimator(image,execution_role,
instance_count=1,
instance_type="ml.m5.large",
output_path=f"s3://{bucket}/{prefix}/output",
sagemaker_session=sagemaker.Session())
ip_insights.set_hyperparameters(num_entity_vectors="20000",
random_negative_sampling_rate="5",
vector_dim="128",
mini_batch_size="1000",
epochs="5",learning_rate="0.01")

input_data = { "train": sagemaker.session.s3_input(training_path, content_type="text/csv")}
ip_insights.fit(input_data)

Deploy the trained model and test with valid and anomalous traffic

After the model has been trained, you deploy the model to a SageMaker endpoint and send a series of unique identifier and IPv4 address combinations to test your model. This portion of code assumes you have test data saved in your S3 bucket. The test data is a .csv file, where the first column is instance ids and the second column is IPs. It is recommended to test valid and invalid data to see the results of the model. The following code deploys your endpoint.

predictor = ip_insights.deploy(initial_instance_count=1, instance_type="ml.m5.large")
print(f"Endpoint name: {predictor.endpoint}")

Now that your endpoint is deployed, you can now submit inference requests to identify if traffic is potentially anomalous. Below is a sample of what your formatted data should look like. In this case, the first column identifier is an instance id and the second column is an associated IP address as shown in the following:

i-0dee580a031e28c14,10.0.2.125
i-05891769c3b7b2879,10.0.3.238
i-0dee580a031e28c14,10.0.2.145
i-05891769c3b7b2879,10.0.10.11

After you have your data in CSV format, you can submit the data for inference using the code by reading your .csv file from an S3 bucket.:

inference_df = wr.s3.read_csv('s3://{bucket}/{prefix}/inference/testdata.csv')

import io
from io import StringIO

csv_file = io.StringIO()
inference_csv = inference_df.to_csv(csv_file, sep=",", header=True, index=False)
inference_payload = csv_file.getvalue()
print(inference_payload)
response = predictor.predict(
inference_payload,
initial_args={"ContentType":'text/csv'})
print(response)

b'{"predictions": [{"dot_product": 1.2591100931167603}, {"dot_product": 0.97600919008255}, {"dot_product": -3.638532876968384}, {"dot_product": -6.778188705444336}]}'

The output for an IP Insights model provides a measure of how statistically expected an IP address and online resource are. The range for this address and resource is unbounded however, so there are considerations on how you would determine if an instance ID and IP address combination should be considered anomalous.

In the preceding example, four different identifier and IP combinations were submitted to the model. The first two combinations were valid instance ID and IP address combinations that are expected based on the training set. The third combination has the correct unique identifier but a different IP address within the same subnet. The model should determine there is a modest anomaly as the embedding is slightly different from the training data. The fourth combination has a valid unique identifier but an IP address of a nonexistent subnet within any VPC in the environment.

Note: Normal and abnormal traffic data will change based on your specific use case, for example: if you want to monitor external and internal traffic you would need a unique identifier aligned to each IP address and a scheme to generate the external identifiers.

To determine what your threshold should be to determine whether traffic is anomalous can be done using known normal and abnormal traffic. The steps outlined in this sample notebook are as follows:

1. Construct a test set to represent normal traffic.
2. Add abnormal traffic into the dataset.
3. Plot the distribution of dot_product scores for the model on normal traffic and the abnormal traffic.
4. Select a threshold value which distinguishes the normal subset from the abnormal subset. This value is based on your false-positive tolerance

Set up continuous monitoring of new VPC flow log traffic.

To demonstrate how this new ML model could be use with Amazon Security Lake in a proactive manner, we will configure a Lambda function to be invoked on each PutObject event within the Amazon Security Lake managed bucket, specifically the VPC flow log data. Within Amazon Security Lake there is the concept of a subscriber, that consumes logs and events from Amazon Security Lake. The Lambda function that responds to new events must be granted a data access subscription. Data access subscribers are notified of new Amazon S3 objects for a source as the objects are written to the Security Lake bucket. Subscribers can directly access the S3 objects and receive notifications of new objects through a subscription endpoint or by polling an Amazon SQS queue.

1. Open the Security Lake console.
2. In the navigation pane, select Subscribers.
3. On the Subscribers page, choose Create subscriber.
4. For Subscriber details, enter inferencelambda for Subscriber name and an optional Description.
5. The Region is automatically set as your currently selected AWS Region and can’t be modified.
6. For Log and event sources, choose Specific log and event sources and choose VPC Flow Logs and Route 53 logs
7. For Data access method, choose S3.
8. For Subscriber credentials, provide your AWS account ID of the account where the Lambda function will reside and a user-specified external ID.
   Note: If doing this locally within an account, you don’t need to have an external ID.
9. Choose Create.

Create the Lambda function

To create and deploy the Lambda function you can either complete the following steps or deploy the prebuilt SAM template 01_ipinsights/01.02-ipcheck.yaml in the GitHub repo. The SAM template requires you provide the SQS ARN and the SageMaker endpoint name.

1. On the Lambda console, choose Create function.
2. Choose Author from scratch.
3. For Function Name, enter ipcheck.
4. For Runtime, choose Python 3.10.
5. For Architecture, select x86_64.
6. For Execution role, select Create a new role with Lambda permissions.
7. After you create the function, enter the contents of the ipcheck.py file from the GitHub repo.
8. In the navigation pane, choose Environment Variables.
9. Choose Edit.
10. Choose Add environment variable.
11. For the new environment variable, enter ENDPOINT_NAME and for value enter the endpoint ARN that was outputted during deployment of the SageMaker endpoint.
12. Select Save.
13. Choose Deploy.
14. In the navigation pane, choose Configuration.
15. Select Triggers.
16. Select Add trigger.
17. Under Select a source, choose SQS.
18. Under SQS queue, enter the ARN of the main SQS queue created by Security Lake.
19. Select the checkbox for Activate trigger.
20. Select Add.

Validate Lambda findings

1. Open the Amazon CloudWatch console.
2. In the left side pane, select Log groups.
3. In the search bar, enter ipcheck, and then select the log group with the name /aws/lambda/ipcheck.
4. Select the most recent log stream under Log streams.
5. Within the logs, you should see results that look like the following for each new Amazon Security Lake log:

{'predictions': [{'dot_product': 0.018832731992006302}, {'dot_product': 0.018832731992006302}]}

This Lambda function continually analyzes the network traffic being ingested by Amazon Security Lake. This allows you to build mechanisms to notify your security teams when a specified threshold is violated, which would indicate an anomalous traffic in your environment.

Cleanup

When you’re finished experimenting with this solution and to avoid charges to your account, clean up your resources by deleting the S3 bucket, SageMaker endpoint, shutting down the compute attached to the SageMaker Jupyter notebook, deleting the Lambda function, and disabling Amazon Security Lake in your account.

Conclusion

In this post you learned how to prepare network traffic data sourced from Amazon Security Lake for machine learning, and then trained and deployed an ML model using the IP Insights algorithm in Amazon SageMaker. All of the steps outlined in the Jupyter notebook can be replicated in an end-to-end ML pipeline. You also implemented an AWS Lambda function that consumed new Amazon Security Lake logs and submitted inferences based on the trained anomaly detection model. The ML model responses received by AWS Lambda could proactively notify security teams of anomalous traffic when certain thresholds are met. Continuous improvement of the model can be enabled by including your security team in the loop reviews to label whether traffic identified as anomalous was a false positive or not. This could then be added to your training set and also added to your normal traffic dataset when determining an empirical threshold. This model can identify potentially anomalous network traffic or behavior whereby it can be included as part of a larger security solution to initiate an MFA check if a user is signing in from an unusual server or at an unusual time, alert staff if there is a suspicious network scan coming from new IP addresses, or combine the IP insights score with other sources such as Amazon Guard Duty to rank threat findings. This model can include custom log sources such as Azure Flow Logs or on-premises logs by adding in custom sources to your Amazon Security Lake deployment.

In part 2 of this blog post series, you will learn how to build an anomaly detection model using the Random Cut Forest algorithm trained with additional Amazon Security Lake sources that integrate network and host security log data and apply the security anomaly classification as part of an automated, comprehensive security monitoring solution.

About the authors

Joe Morotti is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), helping Enterprise customers across the Midwest US. He has held a wide range of technical roles and enjoy showing customer’s art of the possible. In his free time, he enjoys spending quality time with his family exploring new places and overanalyzing his sports team’s performance

Bishr Tabbaa is a solutions architect at Amazon Web Services. Bishr specializes in helping customers with machine learning, security, and observability applications. Outside of work, he enjoys playing tennis, cooking, and spending time with family.

Sriharsh Adari is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he helps customers work backwards from business outcomes to develop innovative solutions on AWS. Over the years, he has helped multiple customers on data platform transformations across industry verticals. His core area of expertise include Technology Strategy, Data Analytics, and Data Science. In his spare time, he enjoys playing Tennis, binge-watching TV shows, and playing Tabla.

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