Amazon Inspector Reviews

I can access Amazon Inspector from my own account. Even though I have this delegated admin security account that gathers from all member accounts, if I go into my account, I just see my findings there. I do it the same way in the security account, but from my own account. This would be the same for small and medium-sized enterprises as well, since they would typically just have a few accounts, and they can go into the accounts and see their findings directly.

The most valuable features probably are the ability to do automated vulnerability assessments, which it does with Amazon Inspector version two. It operates continuously, so as soon as resources are created, it scans them for vulnerabilities. This allows me to pinpoint potential security vulnerabilities and provide actionable recommendations relatively quickly. Larger enterprises usually use Inspector to gather all the vulnerabilities, the CVEs, across all accounts in an AWS organization. 

The enterprises I work for typically have many accounts in their organization, such as thousands of accounts where I am at the moment. It is a way to gather the vulnerabilities that are present on EC2 instances, container images, and Lambda functions.

I use Amazon Inspector for scanning EC2 instances. I typically run it weekly or monthly, based on the environment, to get reports on vulnerabilities. In addition, I integrate it with EC2 and ECR services.

With Amazon Inspector, I can automate vulnerability management. When enabled with Security Hub, it also provides a comprehensive dashboard. The service detects software vulnerabilities and provides solutions to address them. After scheduling scans, it gives detailed reports that help prioritize issues. This automation means I don't need constant manual supervision.

Amazon Inspector is used for vulnerability assessment and provides detailed reports for infrastructure security. It's primarily used for vulnerability assessments and scans multiple types of resources, providing a report with findings and CVEs.

Amazon Inspector impacts operations primarily from a security perspective, assisting with vulnerability management and improving the security score for the organization.

The use case is that any deployable container we have in our infrastructure should get scanned for vulnerabilities.  

It is on a public cloud, and as soon as the containers get deployed to ECR, it automatically scans for vulnerability. It scans every hour on the hour. 

Its version is out of the box with Amazon.

It is scanning the whole repository for any sort of vulnerabilities. So, it allows us to be more confident in our DevSecOps and not put a lot of folks or attention to it. We can trust the solution.

Before anything gets out to deployment, we have to be SOC 2 compliant. It gives us the ability to pretty much approach and implement a solution before anything gets out to our staging or production environment. We check in our code very frequently, and we're able to discover and get rid of any vulnerabilities before they make it to our cloud platform.

Amazon Inspector is configured by a team member to pull all vulnerability details into our environment, allowing us to access all the vulnerability findings.

We're in the initial phase and don't have any regulatory obligations yet. We're still building up the environment. However, we can run the CIS Benchmark scan across the entire environment. 

Security best practices were another reason I looked into Inspector, as it also performs CIS compliance for configuration. We're just getting started with the compliance aspect.

Amazon Inspector simplifies our vulnerability assessment process. It is one key feature I was looking for. Amazon Inspector supports the CIS Benchmarks. We had a homegrown tool to do that earlier, and now we are looking forward to using Amazon Inspector for it.

So, the automated scanning feature has positively impacted our security posture.

It offers capabilities around compliance and vulnerability management for EC2 instances, including OS compliance checks and vulnerabilities within EC2 OS images.

The findings dashboards are neat and easy to understand, offering clear demarcations for different types of findings and detailed insights into specific vulnerabilities and their associated instances. It is not a place where everything is dumped together. It is easy to understand the layout. It very precisely does what it talks about. When a vulnerability is identified, it tells me which instance has it and what operating system image it's using. This helps me correlate and understand, "Okay, this vulnerability is likely due to the OS I'm running. Maybe switching to a more secure option will help remediate these issues."

Overall, the dashboards effectively convey what they're designed to do. They tell you about vulnerabilities within your runtime environment, whether it's containers, EC2 instances, or even Lambdas (though I don't have experience with those). For EC2 instances, that's how we primarily use it.

Initially, we used it for client performance for four months; we completed the automation. 

It's primarily used for automated vulnerability detection. It continuously scans your AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities, helping us maintain an overall security posture. Think of it as an automated vulnerability management service for our cloud environment.

The automated vulnerability detection aspect is most valuable. It continuously scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. 

We use AWS services for a variety of clients, including banking and healthcare. We leverage GuardDuty for continuous threat detection, Inspector for vulnerability management, and Security Hub for CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management).

For compliance, we primarily use Security Hub for our CSPM needs. Currently, both Inspector and GuardDuty are integrated with our SIEM tool, Sumo Logic. 

Any logs or data relevant to compliance are ingested into Sumo Logic. From there, we've configured alerts to be sent via email or Jira tickets.

We don't rely completely on Inspector for vulnerability identification. It's partially used, as we find third-party security tools to be more mature for that specific purpose.

The integration of Amazon Inspector with other AWS services has enhanced our security.

Security Hub is a major asset because it allows us to centralize data from various AWS services. We can integrate third-party tools as well. It is just a single-click option.  

If you're using AWS Organizations, it simplifies the process by allowing you to send logs from multiple accounts to a single designated AWS account. You can then monitor everything using a centralized dashboard within that account. This seamless integration of Inspector, GuardDuty, and other security services definitely improves our overall security posture.