A customer has deployed assets in their cloud environment and utilizes Amazon Inspector to help them assess the security of what was deployed on a continuous basis. Cost is not a concern for them with using Amazon Inspector due to the low number of assets they have deployed.

One of the deployed assets is an Apache web server running CentOS Linux Server and the other is a DNS server running on Windows Server $2012$ R$2.$ These are the only services running on these systems.

We discussed the components of network assessment and host assessment with Amazon Inspector and the different assessment possibilities under each. Given what we discussed, answer the questions below.

a$)$ What component or components of Amazon Inspector should be applied in the scenario above to assess the security of the assets AND how could they be utilized?

b$)$ What is an important component of a host assessment that is necessary to give accurate assessments. Why is this?

Be specific in your answers with a maximum of $5-6$ sentences per part above.

HINT: Read through the specifics provided for the customer environment and the links provided in the lecture.