Amazon Inspector suppression rules best practices for AWS Organizations

This article discusses best practices for using suppression rules in Amazon Inspector to manage vulnerabilities at scale across multiple accounts in AWS Organizations.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Setting up a delegated admin account for centralized vulnerability scanning with Amazon Inspector across multiple AWS accounts
• Using suppression rules to filter and prioritize Amazon Inspector findings based on criteria like severity, resource tags, and Amazon Inspector scores
• Tagging resources with risk levels to enable risk-based prioritization of findings
• Creating suppression rules based on resource tags and risk exposure levels across different environments like production, development, and sandbox
• Integrating Amazon Inspector with AWS Security Hub for consolidated visibility of findings
• Regularly re-evaluating and updating suppression rules as part of continuous vulnerability management