In my previous article, I shared my perspective on Amazon Inspector's 2025 updates and how it now covers most areas in DevSecOps. At the end of that article, I mentioned Security Hub as the place where all these findings come together.
So why am I talking about Security Hub?
Because from my perspective, it's the central piece that ties everything together.
The Problem & Why Security Hub Helps
In today's world, we need to comply with various standards — whether it's NIST guidelines that I discussed before, CIS Benchmarks, or PCI-DSS for those handling payment data. With all these compliance requirements, a lot of security models and stages have been introduced lately.
What does this mean for us? More dashboards to monitor.
Especially for people who work on operations, this becomes overwhelming. You have findings from Inspector, alerts from GuardDuty, issues from IAM Access Analyzer, and the list goes on. Jumping between consoles just to get a complete picture of your security posture is not efficient.
This is where Security Hub helps.
Security Hub acts as a single place where all your security findings are aggregated. Instead of checking multiple dashboards, you get one consolidated view. From my experience, this saves a lot of time — especially when you need to report the overall security status to stakeholders or during audits.
What I find useful is the integration with other AWS security tools. Inspector findings for vulnerabilities, GuardDuty for threat detection, Macie for data security — all flow into Security Hub automatically. If you're managing multiple AWS accounts in an organization, the cross-account visibility is also helpful. You can see the security posture across all accounts from one place.
For compliance, Security Hub also provides automated checks against standards like CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and AWS Foundational Security Best Practices. This helps when you need to demonstrate compliance during audits.
What It Doesn't Solve
Being honest here — Security Hub is great for aggregating findings, but it doesn't cover everything.
For areas like DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing), you still need to look elsewhere. As I mentioned in my Prowler article, there are other tools that complement what AWS provides natively.
Security Hub is the central piece, but it's not the only piece.
Closing
From my perspective as someone working in DevSecOps, Security Hub brings value by reducing the complexity of monitoring multiple security tools. In a world where compliance requirements keep growing, having one place to see everything matters.
I think that's it for now for this article. Leave a comment below about your thoughts! Thanks.
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