Working with the Summary dashboard in Security Hub

On the AWS Security Hub console, the dashboard on the Summary page can help you identify areas of security concern in your AWS environment, without the need for additional analytics tools or complex queries. You can customize the dashboard layout, add or remove widgets, and filter the data to focus on areas of particular interest. You can also save your filter criteria as a filter set to quickly retrieve specific types of data in the future.

If you customize the dashboard or filter the data, Security Hub automatically saves your settings for subsequent use. In addition, the settings are saved independently for each user of your Security Hub account. This means that different users can have different layouts, widgets, and filter sets for the dashboard.

Each time you open the Summary dashboard, Security Hub automatically refreshes most dashboard data. However, some of the data is updated less frequently. For example, security scores and control statuses are updated every 24 hours.

If you configured a cross-Region aggregation Region for Security Hub, your dashboard data includes findings from the aggregation Region and all linked Regions. If you're the delegated Security Hub administrator for an organization, the data includes findings for your administrator account and your member accounts. You can optionally filter the data by account. If you have a member account or a standalone account, the data includes findings only for your account.

Available widgets for the Summary dashboard

The Summary dashboard includes widgets that reflect the modern cloud security threat landscape, guided by the security operations and experiences of AWS customers. Some widgets are shown by default while others are not. You can customize your view of the dashboard by adding or removing widgets.

To add them, choose Add widget at the top right of the Summary page. In the search bar, enter the title of the widget. Drag and drop the widget on to the dashboard.

Widgets shown by default

By default, the Summary dashboard includes the following widgets:

Security standards

Displays your most recent summary security score and the security score for each Security Hub standard. Security scores, which range from 0–100 percent, represent the proportion of passed controls relative to all of your enabled controls. For more information about these scores, see Method of calculating security scores. This widget helps you understand your overall security posture.

Assets with the most findings

Provides an overview of the resources, accounts, and applications that have the most findings. The list is sorted in descending order by the number of findings. In the widget, each tab shows the top six items in that category, grouped by severity and resource type. If you choose a number in the Total findings column, Security Hub opens a page that shows the findings for the asset. This widget helps you quickly identify which of your core assets have potential security threats.

Findings by Region

Shows the total number of findings, grouped by severity, in each AWS Region in which Security Hub is enabled. This widget helps you identify security issues that potentially affect particular Regions. If you open the dashboard in your aggregation Region, this widget helps you monitor potential security issues in each linked Region.

Most common threat types

Provides a breakdown of the 10 most common types of threats in your AWS environment. This includes threats such as escalation of privileges, use of exposed credentials, or communication with malicious IP addresses.

To view this data, Amazon GuardDuty must be enabled. If it is, choose a threat type in this widget to open the GuardDuty console and review findings related to this threat. This widget helps you evaluate potential threats in the context of other security issues.

Software vulnerabilities with exploits

Provides a summary of software vulnerabilities that exist in your AWS environment and have known exploits. You can also review a breakdown of vulnerabilities that do and don't have fixes available.

To view this data, Amazon Inspector must be enabled. If it is, choose a statistic in this widget to open the Amazon Inspector console and review more details about the vulnerability. This widget helps you evaluate software vulnerabilities in the context of other security issues.

New findings over time

Shows trends in the number of new daily findings during the past 90 days. You can break down the data by severity or by provider for additional context. This widget helps you understand if finding volume spiked or dropped at specific times during the past 90 days.

Resources with the most findings

Provides a summary of the resources that have generated the most findings, broken down by the following resource types: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, and AWS Lambda functions.

In the widget, each tab focuses on one of the preceding resource types, listing the 10 resource instances that generated the most findings. To review the findings for a specific resource, choose the resource instance. This widget helps you triage security findings that are associated with common AWS resources.

Widgets hidden by default

The following widgets are also available for the Summary dashboard, but they are hidden by default:

AMIs with the most findings

Provides a list of the 10 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that have generated the most findings. This data is available only if Amazon EC2 enabled for your account. It helps you identify which AMIs pose potential security risks.

IAM principals with the most findings

Provides a list of the 10 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users that have generated the most findings. This widget helps you perform administrative and billing tasks. It shows you which users contribute to Security Hub usage the most.

Accounts with the most findings (by severity)

Shows a graph of the 10 accounts that have generated the most findings, grouped by severity. This widget helps you determine which accounts to focus analysis and remediation efforts on.

Accounts with the most findings (by resource type)

Shows a graph of the 10 accounts that have generated the most findings, grouped by resource type. This widget helps you determine which accounts and resource types to prioritize for analysis and remediation.

Insights

Lists five Security Hub managed insights and the number of findings that they generated. Insights identify a specific security area that requires attention.

Latest findings from AWS integrations

Shows the number of findings that you received in Security Hub from integrated AWS services. It also shows when you most recently received findings from each integrated service. This widget provides consolidated findings data from multiple AWS services. To drill down, choose an integrated service. Security Hub then opens the console for that service.