Security in the cloud is essential to protecting sensitive data, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and maintaining business continuity. It involves robust measures to prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, and cyberattacks and addresses the unique challenges posed by the shared responsibility model between cloud providers and customers. Effective cloud security ensures that the dynamic and scalable nature of cloud environments does not compromise the integrity and confidentiality of data while also managing the costs and complexities associated with potential security incidents. To enhance security, AWS provides services like Security Hub, which plays a crucial role in monitoring and managing security and compliance across AWS accounts.
In this Cloud Lab, you’ll learn how to utilize AWS Security Hub to monitor your AWS infrastructure’s security and compliance. You’ll start with configuring AWS Config to monitor specific resources in your account. After that, you’ll create some AWS resources, a security group, an EC2 instance, and an S3 bucket to store some files. Next, you’ll use the AWS Security Hub to check for the security gaps in your infrastructure. You’ll then use remediation suggestions from the Security Hub to mitigate the security gaps identified by AWS Security Hub.
After completing this Cloud Lab, you’ll be able to use AWS Security Hub to improve the security posture of your AWS infrastructure using the findings and remediations provided by Security Hub.
The provisioned infrastructure diagram at the end of this Cloud Lab will look like:
