Security Hub is a service provided by AWS cloud which gives you a complete picture of your cloud security in AWS and allows you to compare your environment to industry standards and best practices.
Security Hub aggregates security data from AWS accounts, services, and supported third-party partner products, allowing you to monitor security patterns and prioritize security issues.
Why use Security Hub:
- The work required to gather and prioritize security discoveries across accounts from integrated AWS services and AWS partner products is reduced by Security Hub. Security Hub compares findings from several suppliers to assist you in prioritizing the most crucial ones.
- Based on AWS best practices and industry standards, Security Hub automatically performs continual account-level configuration and security checks. The outcome of these inspections is provided by Security Hub as a readiness score, and it reveals certain accounts and resources that need attention.
- Your security discoveries from different accounts and supplier products are combined by Security Hub, and the results are shown on the Security Hub portal. This enables you to evaluate your total current security status in order to discover patterns, pinpoint any problems, and implement the required corrective measures.
Steps to set up AWS Security Hub:
- First, we need to enable AWS Config. For that go to the AWS Config dashboard.
- Select 1-click setup.
- Next, click on Enable.
- Now go to the AWS Security Hub dashboard.
- Click on Go to Security Hub.
- Click on Enable Security Hub.
- After a few minutes, we will have security-related data.
Terminologies related to AWS Cloud Security Hub:
Insights: An insight from the Security Hub is a group of connected discoveries. It points out a security concern that needs attention and action. An insight might, for instance, identify EC2 instances that are the focus of research that uncovers lax security procedures. Findings from various finding suppliers are combined into an understanding.
Findings: Findings are security flaws or ineffective security checks that have been found by the combined AWS service and outside solutions.
Security Standards: By performing automated and ongoing checks against the regulations in a collection of supported security standards, Security Hub produces its own findings. These guidelines establish whether the controls contained in a standard are being followed. The checks give a readiness score and show which accounts and resources need to be tended to.
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