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A Cloud Guru

Using AWS Security Hub to Analyze an AWS Account

This hands-on lab provides an introduction to AWS Security Hub and how it can be used to analyze the security of an AWS account. You can view this hands-on lab as a Security Hub quick start guide.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

45m

Published

Oct 10, 2022

Challenge

Enable AWS Security Hub
- Enable AWS Config
- Then, enable AWS Security Hub
Challenge

Create a VPC
- From the VPC console, select Create VPC
  - Select VPC and More
Challenge

Create a Security Group
- Create an EC2 Security Hub
  - Set the ingress on port 22 to 0.0.0.0/0 (This will create a critical finding in Security Hub.)
Challenge

Create an S3 Bucket
- Create an S3 bucket with open read access
  - Turn off the checkbox (the default), which restricts open read access (This will create a Security Hub finding.)

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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