Tag: Amazon Inspector

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 […]

May 31, 2022: The updated blog post is available here. June 18, 2020: This solution no longer works, and the Lambda runtime this code is relying on has been deprecated. When we have an updated blog, we’ll add a link to it here. Updated on November 27, 2018: We added a policy to the instructions […]

August 15, 2021: This blog post is under construction. Please refer back to this post in a day or two for the most accurate and helpful information. 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. […]

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 […]

In case you missed any of the AWS Security Blog posts from March and April, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and the subject matter ranges from the AWS Config Rules repository to automatically updating AWS WAF IP blacklists. April April 28, AWS […]