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Security via AWS Inspector

Security via AWS Inspector - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Security via AWS Inspector

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- [Voiceover] The next service we're going to look at is AWS Inspector. This is an automated security assessment service for EC2. It assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. After it completes the assessment, it produces a prioritized list of security findings. It includes an extensive knowledge base of rules mapped to common security best practices. To get us started, I want to point out in the Amazon documentation that inspector, as of this recording, works with EC2 and only specific operating systems and versions and regions. So you're going to want to check the documentation to see if it's going to be possible to work with it in your particular area. Also, I want to point out that it says here in the documentation, at this time, your Amazon Inspector assessment targets can consist only of EC2 instances. I take from this wording that the intent is to expand Amazon Inspector to other types of services so when you watch this there might be more…

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