Category: AWS Security Hub

Certificates are a vital part of any security infrastructure because they allow a company’s internal or external facing products, like websites and devices, to be trusted. To deploy certificates successfully and at scale, you need to set up a certificate authority hierarchy that provisions and issues certificates. You also need to monitor this hierarchy closely, […]

In this post, I’ll show you how to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS Developer Tools, as well as Aqua Security‘s open source container vulnerability scanner, Trivy. You’ll build two Docker images, one with vulnerabilities and one without, to learn the capabilities of Trivy and how to send all vulnerability […]

October 6, 2020: The code for sending your findings to Slack, and one image, have been updated in this blog post. In this post, we show you how to configure AWS Chatbot to send findings from AWS Security Hub to Slack. Security Hub gives you a comprehensive view of your security high-priority alerts and security […]

AWS Security Hub offers a new security standard, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices This week AWS Security Hub launched a new security standard called AWS Foundational Security Best Practices. This standard implements security controls that detect when your AWS accounts and deployed resources do not align with the security best practices defined by AWS security […]

In this post, I will show you how to run a Chef InSpec scan with AWS Systems Manager and Systems Manager Run Command across your managed instances. InSpec is an open-source runtime framework that lets you create human-readable profiles to define security, compliance, and policy requirements and then test your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]

August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. On February 13, 2020, AWS added partial support for the Payment Card Industry Data Security […]

June 2, 2021: The instructions in this blog post have been implemented in an AWS Solution, AWS Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation, that includes remediations for more than 20 security controls. To learn more about implementing the solution, see How to deploy the AWS Solution for Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation. AWS Security […]

August 10, 2022: The content in this blog post is no longer up-to-date. AWS Security Hub now automatically receives AWS Config managed and custom rule evaluation results as security findings. Please see the feature announcement and the documentation for more details. You no longer need the custom solution described in this blog post to import […]

May 3, 2021: Since the author wrote this post, Security Hub has launched native features that simplify integration with Prowler as a findings provider. Therefore, Security Hub native integration with Prowler is now the recommended solution for sending findings from Prowler. For more information, see the Prowler documentation. In this blog post, I’ll show you […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do as the VP […]