Setting up and using AWS Security Hub

In this recipe, we will learn to set up and use AWS Security Hub. Security Hub makes use of findings from services such as Config, GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector to provide a central view from which to manage security alerts and automate compliance checks. Security Hub can do automated compliance checks using the CIS AWS Foundation Benchmarks, which is enabled by default when we enable Security Hub.

Getting ready

Set up one or more of the following services: AWS Config, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, and Amazon Inspector, following the recipes in Chapter 8, Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config and Chapter 9, Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector.

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