AWS Security Blog
Category: AWS Security Hub
Continuous compliance monitoring with Chef InSpec and AWS Security Hub
In this post, I will show you how to run a Chef InSpec scan with AWS Systems Manager and Systems Manager Run Command across your managed instances. InSpec is an open-source runtime framework that lets you create human-readable profiles to define security, compliance, and policy requirements and then test your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]
How to use the AWS Security Hub PCI DSS v3.2.1 standard
August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. On February 13, 2020, AWS added partial support for the Payment Card Industry Data Security […]
Automated Response and Remediation with AWS Security Hub
June 2, 2021: The instructions in this blog post have been implemented in an AWS Solution, AWS Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation, that includes remediations for more than 20 security controls. To learn more about implementing the solution, see How to deploy the AWS Solution for Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation. AWS Security […]
How to import AWS Config rules evaluations as findings in Security Hub
August 10, 2022: The content in this blog post is no longer up-to-date. AWS Security Hub now automatically receives AWS Config managed and custom rule evaluation results as security findings. Please see the feature announcement and the documentation for more details. You no longer need the custom solution described in this blog post to import […]
Use AWS Fargate and Prowler to send security configuration findings about AWS services to Security Hub
May 3, 2021: Since the author wrote this post, Security Hub has launched native features that simplify integration with Prowler as a findings provider. Therefore, Security Hub native integration with Prowler is now the recommended solution for sending findings from Prowler. For more information, see the Prowler documentation. In this blog post, I’ll show you […]
AWS Security Profiles: Dan Plastina, VP of Security Services
In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do as the VP […]
Nine AWS Security Hub best practices
July 21, 2020: The advice about enabling Security Hub in every region where you have authorized activity was updated. AWS Security Hub is a security and compliance service that became generally available on June 25, 2019. It provides you with extensive visibility into your security and compliance status across multiple AWS accounts, in a single […]