Report and improve your vulnerability management program

Effective reporting for vulnerability management involves reviewing data, monitoring trends, and sharing knowledge. This provides visibility and helps teams improve their organizations security posture in the AWS Cloud.

Conduct monthly security operations meetings

Monthly security operations meetings are an effective mechanism to promote continued ownership, accountability, and alignment across teams. In the meeting, the stakeholders from the security, cloud, and application teams review data for outstanding security findings, findings outside of service level agreements (SLAs), and the teams that have the most findings.

These meetings help your teams identify anti-patterns, such as opportunities to add more restrictions. Preventative controls and automation opportunities can also be discovered and shared. The meetings also help identify what is working and not working well within the vulnerability management program so that you can make improvements.

By reviewing data, identifying anti-patterns and issues, and sharing information about controls and automations, teams can gain valuable insights and make ongoing refinements that can strengthen their security posture and reduce their security-related SLAs.

Use Security Hub insights to identify anti-patterns

AWS Security Hub insights can also help you identify anti-patterns and track your progress in remediating findings. A Security Hub insight is a collection of related findings. It identifies a security area that requires attention and intervention. Security Hub insights can help you identify specific requirements and develop reports. Security Hub offers several built-in, managed insights. To track security issues that are unique to your AWS environment and usage, you can create custom insights.