Next-Gen Cloud-Native SOC: A Stateful Risk
Scoring Approach for Financial Cybersecurity on
AWS
I. I NTRODUCTION B. Autonomy of the Agentic AI Solution
A. Background and Problem Statement The system exhibits profound autonomy driven by the
Bedrock Claude agent. Upon receiving an alert webhook,
The financial sector remains a prime target for cyber- the Agentic AI autonomously synthesizes the threat con-
criminals. Conventional SOCs typically operate on reactive text. To prevent AI ”hallucinations,” it leverages a Retrieval-
and signature-based models, which present two major critical Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, querying an
flaws. First is ”Alert Fatigue”: legacy SIEMs generate thou- OpenSearch Vector Database to retrieve approved Incident
sands of alerts daily based on atomic events, overwhelming Response (IR) playbooks from Amazon S3. Guided by these
SOC analysts and causing them to miss genuine indicators of grounded playbooks, the agent independently orchestrates
compromise. Second is the limitation of static rules, which remediation: it triggers AWS Lambda functions to execute
can only detect known attack signatures and fail to identify AWS Systems Manager (SSM) runbooks, dynamically adjusts
anomalous, sophisticated behaviors that lack historical prece- AWS WAF and Security Group rules, and simultaneously
dence in malware databases. interacts with a Jira MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server
to autonomously document the incident lifecycle.
B. The Need for UEBA and Risk Scoring
To overcome these limitations, modern SOCs must tran- C. Business Value Alignment
sition toward User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA). For financial institutions, minimizing the Mean Time To
Instead of evaluating isolated events, the system must cor- Respond (MTTR) while ensuring infrastructure resilience is
relate sequential entity operations over time. We introduce a paramount. This solution delivers immense business value by
”Stateful Risk Scoring” mechanism—a quantitative approach automating Tier-1 and Tier-2 SOC operations, drastically re-
that evaluates entity threat levels dynamically. While a single ducing operational expenditures. Furthermore, the decoupling
failed login carries a low risk score, a sequence of events (e.g., of log ingestion via Kafka ensures zero data loss during DDoS
failed login followed by successful login, sensitive database surges, guaranteeing continuous compliance and uninterrupted
access, and abnormal data export) accumulates a high critical threat visibility in mission-critical cloud environments.
score, accurately reflecting a cohesive attack chain.
III. T ECHNICAL P ROPOSAL R EPORTING
II. I NNOVATION A. Executive Summary
This project proposes a fully autonomous, cloud-native Se-
A. Novelty: From Monolithic SIEM to ML-Driven Agentic
curity Operations Center deployed on Amazon Web Services.
SOC
By integrating Kubernetes-based log ingestion, machine learn-
Traditional Security Operations Centers (SOC) frequently ing anomaly detection, and Agentic Artificial Intelligence-
suffer from alert fatigue and system bottlenecks during driven Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response, the
high-volume cyberattacks. Our proposal introduces a novel, system provides an end-to-end defense mechanism. It auto-
enterprise-grade Next-Generation SOC architecture that funda- matically ingests hybrid cloud telemetry, detects sophisticated
mentally resolves these issues. The novelty lies in combining threats, and executes mathematically and contextually justified
a highly fault-tolerant ingestion pipeline—utilizing Amazon remediations without requiring immediate human intervention.
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Apache Kafka—with
a dual-layered analytical engine. Initially, custom Machine B. Project Scope
Learning (ML) models trained via Amazon SageMaker au- The scope encompasses the architectural design and de-
tonomously filter atomic events within the ELK stack. Sub- ployment of four core operational domains. These include
sequently, complex and high-risk anomalies are routed not to a fault-tolerant log ingestion layer utilizing Amazon Elastic
human analysts, but to an Agentic Large Language Model Kubernetes Service and Apache Kafka, a machine learning-
(LLM) powered by Amazon Bedrock, shifting the paradigm enhanced detection layer powered by the ELK stack and Ama-
from static rule-based alerting to dynamic, context-aware zon SageMaker, an Agentic Artificial Intelligence reasoning
reasoning. core driven by Amazon Bedrock and Retrieval-Augmented
Generation, and an automated remediation layer integrated via the Jira Model Context Protocol Server and updates a
with an operator-facing React user interface. React-based user interface served via API Gateway, providing
security operators with complete transparency.
C. Project Requirements and Data Strategy
To meet functional requirements, the system must ingest
multi-modal telemetry from both on-premises and Ama-
zon Web Services environments in real-time, process high-
throughput data streams, and execute automated containment
within seconds. The underlying data strategy dictates that
the intelligence of the system relies on a rigorous Amazon
SageMaker training pipeline. Historical datasets and metadata
are ingested from Amazon Simple Storage Service, processed,
and utilized in fine-tuning jobs. The resulting models un-
dergo strict evaluation pipelines and versioning in a Model
Registry before being deployed into the ELK stack for real-
time inference. This ensures the anomaly detection baseline
continuously adapts to new threat vectors.
D. Solution Design and System Architecture
The proposed architecture is a highly resilient, event-driven
ecosystem structured to support the pipeline from machine
learning detection to the Agentic Large Language Model. The
Fig. 1. System Architecture of the ML-Driven Agentic SOC on AWS.
workflow is divided into four seamless operational stages.
First, the ingestion layer handles cross-environment teleme-
try from Wazuh agents, which is pushed to a Wazuh server E. Project Plan
hosted within an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster
The implementation spans a concise, highly-parallelized
for high availability. Filebeat extracts these logs and buffers
four-week timeline. Table I illustrates the detailed GANTT
them into Apache Kafka, ensuring the downstream security
chart, outlining the granular progression from infrastructure
information and event management system is protected from
deployment (EKS, Kafka) to the sophisticated integration of
data surges. Concurrently, native cloud telemetry such as
the Agentic LLM logic and automated SOAR workflows.
Virtual Private Cloud Flow Logs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty,
and Macie is aggregated by AWS Security Hub and routed
TABLE I
via Amazon EventBridge and Kinesis Data Firehose into the D ETAILED P ROJECT I MPLEMENTATION GANTT C HART
central repository.
Next, the detection and monitoring layer utilizes the ELK
stack, comprising Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, to Detailed Project Tasks W1 W2 W3 W4
ingest the buffered data. Within this environment, the deployed Phase 1: Ingestion & Data Engineering
Deploy EKS, Kafka Buffer & ELK Stack X
SageMaker machine learning models continuously evaluate Telemetry Normalization (ECS) & Routing X
the data stream against baseline behaviors. Upon detecting a Phase 2: ML Detection & State Management
high-fidelity threat, alert rules immediately trigger a webhook SageMaker Pipeline Setup & Data Prep X X
payload. Train Anomaly Models & Deploy Risk En- X
gine
This transitions into the core Agentic Artificial Intelligence DynamoDB Stateful Scoring Integration X X
and Retrieval-Augmented Generation layer. The webhook in- Phase 3: Agentic AI & RAG Architecture
vokes an AWS Lambda function that activates the Bedrock Vector DB (OpenSearch) & S3 IR Play- X
books
Claude Large Language Model. To contextualize the threat, Bedrock Claude Integration & Prompting X X
the agent fetches schema data from Amazon DynamoDB Phase 4: SOAR & Security Operations
and utilizes a Bedrock Embed Model to perform semantic Lambda Remediation & Jira MCP Server X
searches against an OpenSearch Vector Database. This process React UI Deployment & End-to-End Test- X
ing
retrieves highly relevant incident response playbooks directly
from Amazon Simple Storage Service.
Finally, within the remediation and response layer, the
Agentic Large Language Model uses this grounded context F. Feasibility Analysis and Risk Assessment
to autonomously issue containment commands. It triggers Technical Feasibility: Utilizing AWS managed services,
Lambda functions that interact with AWS Web Application Kubernetes (EKS), and Kafka guarantees that the architec-
Firewall, Security Groups, and Systems Manager runbooks to ture can elastically scale to handle enterprise-level telemetry
isolate the threat. Simultaneously, it creates tracking tickets throughput without infrastructural collapse.
AI-Related Risks & Mitigation: The primary risk inher-
ent in generative AI is ”hallucination,” where the agent
might execute destructive infrastructure modifications. We
mitigate this through a strict RAG architecture, grounding
the LLM’s decision-making purely in pre-approved enterprise
IR playbooks. Additionally, the Jira MCP integration estab-
lishes an auditable ”Human-in-the-Loop” fallback, ensuring
all autonomous actions are tracked, documented, and easily
reversible by Security Operators via the UI.
IV. P RESENTATION
This technical proposal is meticulously structured to maxi-
mize information density while ensuring a logical, narrative
flow of complex architectural concepts. It strictly adheres
to the Hackathon guidelines: it is constrained within the 5-
page limit, formatted exclusively using the IEEE document
template and citation style, and meticulously scrubbed of all
team and member identifiers to ensure absolute anonymity for
the blinded marking process.
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