aws-secure-environment-accelerator VS cfn_nag

https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-secure-environment-accele...

I've used the ASEA to get a number of organizations setup. I prefer it to Control Tower (it can be installed on top of CT). The ASEA is open source and written in AWS cdk so it can be forked and modified if needed.

Hey ! If you plan to create a new Landing zone, take a look at Control Tower, or this Env Accelerator you can also do it with Terraform.

We are more interested in https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-secure-environment-accelerator which seems to be a way better successor to the original landing zone solution. Nearly all CDK and highly customisable. Just need a fresh new environment to deploy it into and test! By the looks of their commit history it seems they also thought of it as a better control tower before being told to change the wording.

.pre-commit-config.yaml – contains the cfn-lint and cfn_nag pre-commit hooks.

For generic CloudFormation templates, check CFN-NAG.

If you use CDK, you should implement CDK nag; otherwise, use cfn-nag.

cfn_nag

CodeBuild will run a linting check against the CloudFormation Template using cfn-lint and will then run cfn-nag to check for patterns that indicate insecure resources within the CloudFormation template.

Security checks for the Cloudformation stack using cfn-nag

cdk-nag contains several Aspects to check your applications for best practices. It is especially useful if you need to be HIPAA-compliant or have other compliance requirements. It is inspired by cfn_nag which is a a tool checking for patterns in your CloudFormation templates.

cfn-lint and cfn_nag or other tools of that nature to check as you write so you don't need to continually try to deploy only to find that you've done something dumb.

There is another tool called cfn_nag that can check your code for potentially any insecure infrastructure. When you read the documentation around this tool, the author says it can check for things such as:

I recently wanted to use the cfn-nag tool on some templates I was writing but couldn't find any instructions to install on Windows, but I have found a way to do it.