MCY 612 Cloud Security Assignment 3: Amazon Inspector
In this assignment, you will use Amazon Inspector to perform security assessments on an EC2 instance.
Requirements
- You need to implement this assignment with AWS CLI.
- Here is what you need to do:
- Create an EC2 Linux instance.
- Use Amazon Inspector to perform a security assessment on the EC2 instance. After performing the assessment, Amazon Inspector will produce a detailed list of security findings. Fix one potential security issue from the list.
- After fixing the security issue, perform a security assessment on the EC2 instance again. Use the findings to show you have fixed the security issue.
Report
For this assignment, you need to turn in a report in a word document to Canvas. The report must include all of the sections listed below.
- Title Page (5 points) containing the title of the assignment, your name, the name of the class, your instructor’s name, and the date the assignment was submitted.
- Introduction (10 points) A single paragraph that describes the objectives or purpose of the assignment.
- Materials (5 points) List all materials used in the assignment, including AWS CLI, VM, EC2 images, instances, S3 buckets, your AWS Access Key ID, and your AWS Secret Access Key (Note: you only need to show the last five characters of your AWS Access Key ID and the last five characters of your AWS Secret Access Key. For example, the AWS Access Key ID is *********AMPLE.).
- Methods (45 points) Describe the steps completed during your investigation. Be sufficiently detailed so that anyone could read this section and duplicate your efforts. You need to provide all your CLI commands and outputs of the commands.
- Testing (20 points) Describe the testing steps. Be sufficiently detailed so that anyone could understand your testing.
- Conclusion (10 points) A short summary of the assignment, including its purpose and the meaning of your results.
- References (5 points) List any references that you used during the course of your assignment.