Exploring Amazon Inspector: A Powerful AWS Service for Security Assessment

Exploring Amazon Inspector: A Powerful AWS Service for Security Assessment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide range of services and tools to help businesses build, deploy, and manage their applications in a highly secure and scalable manner. One such service is Amazon Inspector. With a primary focus on security assessment, Amazon Inspector provides businesses with automated security assessments for their applications and resources running on AWS.

What is Amazon Inspector?

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps identify vulnerabilities and security issues within your AWS resources, including EC2 instances, network interfaces, and applications. By conducting thorough security assessments, Inspector helps you understand and improve the security posture of your applications and infrastructure.

How Does Amazon Inspector Work?

To get started with Amazon Inspector, you need to define an assessment template. This template determines which rules packages are used to evaluate your resources. A rules package consists of a set of rules that focus on specific security aspects, such as network vulnerabilities, host vulnerabilities, and application security.

Once the assessment template is defined, you can run an assessment using the template. Amazon Inspector then automatically deploys an assessment…