25-11 AWS Inspector

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

• The act of eliminating as many security risks as possible. Hardening is common for Virtual Machines where you run a collection of security checks known as a security benchmark

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AWS Inspector runs a security benchmark against specific EC2 instances.

• You can run a variety of security benchmarks.

Can perform both Network and Host Assessments

• Install the AWS agent on your EC2 instances.
• Run an assessment for your assessment target.
• Review your findings and remediate security issues.

One very popular benchmark you can run is by CIS which has 699 checks!