Tag: Automatic remediation

December 2, 2019: We’ve updated this post to include some additional information about Security Hub. At AWS, we encourage you to use automation to help quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps you scale your security operations as […]

When you’re implementing security measures across your AWS resources, you should use a holistic approach that incorporates controls across multiple areas. In the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Security perspective whitepaper, we define these controls across four categories. Directive controls. Establish the governance, risk, and compliance models the environment will operate within. Preventive controls. Protect your […]

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 for creating an IAM role. The Amazon Inspector security assessment […]

Update on October 24, 2018: Note that if you do not author the Lambda function correctly, this setup can create an infinite loop (in this case, a rule that is fired repeatedly, which can impact your AWS resources and cause higher than expected charges to your account). The example Lambda function I provide in Step […]