Running an assessment

Execute the following steps to run an assessment:

1. From the Assessment Templates dashboard in Amazon Inspector, select the assessment template you would like to run.
2. Select the blue Run button. A message will then appear stating that the assessment has started.
3. At this point, the Last run column status will update to Preparing to start:

4. While the assessment is taking place, you can view more information by selecting Assessment Runs in the left menu. Here, you will find the status of the assessment as it runs, for example, Collecting data:

5. Once the assessment duration has completed, the status will change to Analyzing.
6. Once the analysis is complete, the assessment run will show the number of findings. In my example, we can see that Amazon Inspector has 20 findings for my Linux instance:

Getting these findings after you have run the assessment isn't the end. Let me now explain how you can dive into these findings to gather more information...