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Continuously Detecting Vulnerabilities With Amazon Inspector

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 98
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Description

Amazon Inspector is an offering from AWS that continuously scans your applications and infrastructure for common exploits and vulnerabilities. It supports multiple AWS accounts, allowing you to centralize your vulnerability management for AWS workloads.

Learning to use Amazon Inspector will help anybody looking to improve the security of workloads running in AWS.

In this hands-on lab, you will activate Amazon Inspector, tour its features, and observe some of its findings.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Activate Amazon Inspector
  • Review a finding
  • Remediate a finding

Intended audience

  • Candidates for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Specialty certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Amazon Inspector
  • AWS Lambda

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

Updates

May 16th, 2024 - Resolved Inspector activation issue

Environment before

Environment after

Covered topics

Amazon Web Services
Compute for AWS
Security for AWS
Management for AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon Inspector
Identity and Access Management for AWS
Serverless for AWS
Identity and Access Management
Serverless
Security
Management
Compute
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Lab steps

Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Activating and Touring Amazon Inspector
Reviewing Findings in Amazon Inspector

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