Archive for January 2022

Alright, maybe the title is a little pretentious, but hopefully this isn’t a total disappointment. So if you have been on a linux or mac system as your main workstation for any amount of time, or have recently moved to it, or even just considering adopting it now, you have had to spend some time…

What problem are we trying to solve? The current state of AWS-provided instance compliance scanning is limited to the vanilla profiles available within Amazon Inspector for various operating systems. However, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) has an AWS-provided document (AWS-RunInspecCheck) that can be used to run Chef InSpec profiles on managed instances in order to assess…