Vulnerability Assessment with AWS Inspector

Maintaining a secure cloud infrastructure requires continuous monitoring and proactive vulnerability management. This text-based course introduces you to AWS Inspector, a powerful service designed to automatically discover and assess your cloud workloads for security risks. You will gain the skills to identify software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure across your cloud resources. By learning how to interpret automated findings, you can systematically harden your environment and maintain a robust security posture. What you'll learn: Understand the core principles of automated vulnerability management and cloud security; Configure AWS Inspector to scan virtual machine instances and container registries automatically; Analyze security findings and prioritize remediation based on risk severity levels; Integrate vulnerability scanning into modern CI/CD deployment pipelines; Apply basic zero-trust concepts to network reachability assessments. This course begins with foundational cloud security definitions and key terminology before guiding you through the practical steps of setting up, managing, and automating your vulnerability scans. It is designed for beginner cloud administrators, security enthusiasts, and developers with no prior security scanning experience. Start securing your cloud workloads today through clear, step-by-step written instruction.