Tag: Amazon Inspector

AWS Security Hub is a security and compliance service that became generally available on June 25, 2019. It provides you with extensive visibility into your security and compliance status across multiple AWS accounts, in a single dashboard per region. The service helps you monitor critical settings to ensure that your AWS accounts remain secure, allowing […]

Performing network security assessments allows you to understand your cloud infrastructure and identify risks, but this process traditionally takes a lot of time and effort. You might need to run network port-scanning tools to test routing and firewall configurations, then validate what processes are listening on your instance network ports, before finally mapping the IPs […]

Oct 3, 2019: We’ve updated a sentence to clarify that AWS services can be used in compliance with GDPR. Today, I’m very pleased to announce that all AWS services can be used in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that, in addition to benefiting from all of the measures that AWS […]

Cloud security with scalability and innovation: at AWS, this is our top priority. To help you securely architect cloud solutions, AWS Training and Certification recently added new free digital training about security, including a new course about Amazon GuardDuty, a new managed threat-detection service. These introductory courses, built by AWS experts, are suitable for users and decision makers […]

At AWS re:Invent 2017, the AWS Compliance team participated in excellent engagements with AWS customers about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including discussions that generated helpful input. Today, I am announcing resulting enhancements to our recently launched GDPR Center and the release of a new whitepaper, Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS. The resources available […]

Updated on November 27, 2018: We added a policy to the instructions for creating an IAM role. The Amazon Inspector security assessment service can evaluate the operating environments and applications you have deployed on AWS for common and emerging security vulnerabilities automatically. As an AWS-built service, Amazon Inspector is designed to exchange data and interact […]

In a July 2016 AWS Blog post, I discussed how to integrate Amazon Inspector with third-party ticketing systems by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and AWS Lambda. This AWS Security Blog post continues in the same vein, describing how to use Amazon Inspector to automate various aspects of security management. In this post, I […]

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Addressing Amazon Inspector Assessment Findings on Wednesday, September 28. This webinar will start at 9:00 A.M. and end at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Principal Security Engineer Eric Fitzgerald will review Amazon Inspector security […]

On the AWS Blog yesterday, Jeff Barr published a new security-related blog post written by AWS Principal Security Engineer Eric Fitzgerald. Here’s the beginning of the post, which is entitled, Scale Your Security Vulnerability Testing with Amazon Inspector: “At AWS re:Invent 2015 we announced Amazon Inspector, our security vulnerability assessment service that helps customers test for […]

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Getting Started with Amazon Inspector on Monday, June 27. This webinar will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Principal Security Engineer Eric Fitzgerald will show how […]