AWS Launches Security Hub

Amazon Web Services unveiled its latest updates to security on its cloud services platform at AWS re:Invent 2018: AWS Security Hub.

AWS Security Hub provides you with a comprehensive view of your security state within AWS and helps you check your compliance with the security industry standards and best practices. Security Hub collects security data from across AWS accounts, services, and supported third-party partners and helps you analyze your security trends and identify the highest priority security issues.

When you enable Security Hub, it immediately begins consuming, aggregating, organizing, and prioritizing findings from AWS services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and Amazon Macie, and from AWS partner security solutions. Security Hub also generates its own findings as the result of running automated and continuous compliance checks using AWS best practices and supported industry standards (in this release, CIS AWS Foundations). Security Hub then correlates findings across providers to help you prioritize the most significant ones and consolidates these findings into actionable graphs and tables.

Security Hub also allows you to create insights – collections of related findings defined by an aggregation statement and optional filters. An insight identifies a security area that requires attention. Security Hub comes with several managed (default insights) and, in addition, you can create your own custom insights.

Currently, AWS Security Hub is in Preview release.

Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/