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Amazon Inspector

Amazon Web Services

Integrates with Amazon Inspector (Inspector v2) to retrieve continuous vulnerability and network-exposure findings across the configured AWS accounts and regions. Amazon Inspector scans EC2 instances, ECR container images, and Lambda functions and produces three classes of findings — package vulnerabilities, code vulnerabilities, and network reachability issues. The connector reads those findings via the Inspector v2 ListFindings API (one request per severity) and derives eight Brinqa models from the same finding stream: the scanned assets (EC2 instances and other cloud resources), the findings themselves (as vulnerabilities, static code findings, and violations), and their corresponding definitions.

Findings are fetched once per sync and cached in a local file-backed store keyed by an internal transaction id; the different models sync from that shared store so a single ListFindings sweep feeds every object class. A finding is expanded over its resources list, so finding-derived objects are emitted once per referenced resource.

Data retrieved from Amazon Inspector

Connector ObjectRequiredMaps to Data Model
Aws Ec2 InstanceYesHost
Cloud ResourceYesCloud Resource
Package VulnerabilityYesVulnerability
Package Vulnerability DefinitionYesVulnerability Definition
Code VulnerabilityYesStatic Code Finding
Code Vulnerability DefinitionYesStatic Code Finding Definition
Network Reachability FindingYesViolation
Network Reachability Finding DefinitionYesViolation Definition
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For detailed steps on how to view the data retrieved from Amazon Inspector in the Brinqa Platform, see How to view your data.