SCSEC02-BP02 Aggregate findings and metrics to maintain centralized visibility - Supply Chain Lens
Implementation guidance

SCSEC02-BP02 Aggregate findings and metrics to maintain centralized visibility

Centralizing security findings and metrics across your distributed supply chain environment provides comprehensive visibility into your overall security posture and enables more effective risk management. By aggregating data from multiple sources, accounts, and regions into unified dashboards, security teams can quickly identify patterns, prioritize threats, and coordinate response efforts across the entire supply chain environment.

This consolidated approach minimizes blind spots that often exist between different supply chain components and trading partners, allowing for faster detection of potential security incidents and compliance issues. Maintaining centralized visibility also supports more informed decision-making by providing executives and stakeholders with clear, actionable insights into the security health of the supply chain network.

Desired outcome: Consolidated view of compliance status across the entire supply chain infrastructure.

Benefits of establishing this best practice: Enhanced decision-making capabilities and faster response to compliance issues.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium

Implementation guidance

Use AWS Config's aggregated view to get a consolidated compliance picture across multiple AWS accounts and Regions, while AWS Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of your high-priority security alerts and compliance findings from across AWS accounts.

Integrate compliance data from AWS services into centralized dashboards and reporting tools for visibility into your overall supply chain security posture.

Implementation steps

  1. Configure AWS Config aggregators to consolidate compliance data from all supply chain accounts and regions into a designated security account, providing a unified view of resource configurations and compliance status.

  2. Enable AWS Security Hub in all accounts and establish a central administrator account to aggregate security findings, with customized security standards specific to supply chain operations.

  3. Implement automated tagging strategies for all resources to categorize them by supply chain function, allowing for more granular filtering and analysis of security findings.

  4. Create custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards that integrate metrics from multiple AWS services (Config, Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Inspector) to visualize security trends and compliance status across your supply chain.

  5. Develop automated reporting workflows using Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and QuickSight to generate and distribute regular security posture summaries to stakeholders based on their roles and responsibilities.

  6. Establish integration points between AWS security services and external SIEM or GRC systems to incorporate supply chain security data into enterprise-wide risk management processes.