hands-on lab
Continuously Detecting Vulnerabilities With Amazon Inspector
Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 54
Get guided in a real environmentPractice with a step-by-step scenario in a real, provisioned environment.
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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
Lab steps
Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
Activating and Touring Amazon Inspector
Reviewing Findings in Amazon Inspector