Amazon Inspector - Getting Started

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. In this "Getting Started" course, you will learn about the purpose, benefits, architecture, pricing philosophy, and common use cases of Amazon Inspector. The course also explores how the service is implemented in an AWS environment with demonstration of basic setup and usage of the service.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 60 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations, diagrams, and a step-by-step tutorial.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Describe the basic concepts of Amazon Inspector.
• Describe the typical use cases and architectures associated with an Amazon Inspector solution.
• Recognize the benefits and understand the problem Amazon Inspector can solve.
• Specify what it would take to implement Amazon Inspector in a real-world scenario while implementing a demonstration of Amazon Inspector in the AWS Management Console.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Security engineers, architects, security architects, security DevOps, IT Operations
• IT consultants designing, architecting, and maintaining applications and solutions to run securely in the AWS Cloud

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed the AWS Security Fundamentals Second Edition digital course on AWS Skill Builder.

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction 

• Introduction to Amazon Inspector
• Architecture and Use Cases

Module 2: Using Amazon Inspector

• How Do I Activate Amazon Inspector in the AWS Management Console?
• How Do I Learn the Amazon Inspector Dashboard Components?
• How Do I Assess Amazon Inspector Coverage of My AWS Environment?
• How Do I Understand Findings in Amazon Inspector?
• How Do I Manage Findings in Amazon Inspector?
• How Do I Tear Down Amazon Inspector?