Dive Brief:

• Amazon Web Services introduced a tool designed to automate cloud security on Tuesday.
• Amazon Inspector is now generally available and automates vulnerability assessments for customers running applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, according to an AWS announcement.
• The company already has several customers using Amazon Inspector, which it says helps to improve both security and application compliance. 

Dive Insight:

Amazon Inspector helps customers improve security of applications by "identifying potential security issues, vulnerabilities, or deviations from security standards," according to the AWS blog.

In a nutshell, Amazon Inspector provides APIs customers can use to automate security assessments.

"Amazon Inspector delivers key learnings from our world-class security team as a managed service, so customers benefit from our continuous implementation of best practices and threat intelligence," said Stephen Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer, AWS.

A study released earlier this week by Intel Security found a significant number of respondents to a global survey of 1,200 IT leaders found there are still strong concerns about cloud security. Only 13% of respondents said they fully trust cloud companies to keep their most sensitive data secure. AWS hopes Amazon Inspector will help alleviate some of those concerns.