How can the security engineer accomplish this using AWS services?
Enable AWS Config and set it to record all resources in all Regions and global resources. Then enable AWS Security Hub and confirm that the CIS AWS Foundations compliance standard is enabled.
Enable Amazon Inspector and configure it to scan all Regions for the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmarks. Then enable AWS Security Hub and configure it to ingest the Amazon Inspector findings.
Enable Amazon Inspector and configure it to scan all Regions for the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmarks. Then enable AWS Shield in all Regions to protect the account from DDoS attacks.
Enable AWS Config and set it to record all resources in all Regions and global resources. Then enable Amazon Inspector and configure it to enforce CIS AWS Foundations Benchmarks using AWS Config rules.
Explanations:
Enabling AWS Config to record all resources ensures continuous tracking of resource configurations across the AWS account. AWS Security Hub can then be used to monitor security best practices and CIS AWS Foundations compliance.
Amazon Inspector is designed for vulnerability scanning and assessment, not for continuous compliance monitoring of resource configurations. It does not perform compliance checks for the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmarks.
Amazon Inspector is not the correct tool for continuous compliance monitoring for CIS AWS Foundations. AWS Shield is focused on DDoS protection and is unrelated to compliance checks.
Amazon Inspector is for vulnerability assessments, not compliance checks. While AWS Config can track resource compliance, it is not effective to use Amazon Inspector in this context for enforcing CIS AWS Foundations Benchmarks.
I deduce that the answer is:
Enable AWS Config and set it to record all resources in all Regions and global resources. Then enable AWS Security Hub and confirm that the CIS AWS Foundations compliance standard is enabled.