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Amazon Inspector Deep-Dive : CIS Benchmark, Container image and SBOM
- Amazon Inspector involves several features like ECR scanning, CIS benchmarks, and SBOM generation which enhance the security strategy to detect vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and gain visibility into software components.
- ECR in Amazon Inspector scans container images in Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for software vulnerabilities, generating findings on package risks.
- Scanning Docker images in ECR with Amazon Inspector gives us an insight into CVEs that need to be fixed.
- CIS benchmarks assess EC2 instance configurations against security standards using Amazon Inspector.
- CIS scans can be done for specific instances and can also be applied across multiple accounts if you're a delegated administrator.
- The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provided by Amazon Inspector generates a detailed inventory of software components in your codebase which allows the identification and addressing of vulnerabilities more effectively.
- SBOM export is not currently supported for Windows EC2 instances.
- By exporting an SBOM, you gain transparency, documentation of all components within the software, and faster response and mitigation efforts in case of a security incident.
- Amazon Inspector can be connected to Athena to search for specific packages, integrated with OpenSearch to build a package search engine, and analyzed with Lambda as soon as the SBOM export is done for a specific package.
- In the next part of the Inspector series, the integration of Amazon Inspector with other services will be discussed.
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