kics
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx. (by Checkmarx)
kubescape
Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security, compliance, and misconfiguration scanning, saving Kubernetes users and administrators precious time, effort, and resources. (by kubescape)
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| kics | kubescape | |
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| 13 | 76 | |
| 1,886 | 9,671 | |
| 2.8% | 1.2% | |
| 9.9 | 9.5 | |
| 3 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Open Policy Agent | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kics
Posts with mentions or reviews of kics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-16.
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A Deep Dive Into Terraform Static Code Analysis Tools: Features and Comparisons
KICS (stands for "Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure"): Owner/Maintainer: Checkmarx Age: First released on GitHub on November 30th, 2020 License: Apache License 2.0
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What are the best static analysis security testing tools for Terraform and infrastructure as code?
The ones I remember being alright from a bunch of trials/PoC we did at my job were Snyk https://snyk.io/product/infrastructure-as-code-security/ and The one Gitlab Ultimate uses, https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics
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Securing the software supply chain in the cloud
KICS – Scan for Infrastructure-as-Code vulnerabilities
- Looking for Tips on Open Sourcing a kubernetes security tool
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Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
Checkov, Terrascan, and Kics can be used to scan our Infrastructure code. It supports Terraform, Cloudformation, and Azure ARM resources.
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List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
kics: https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics
Cost:
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KICS (Keep Infrastructure as Code Secure) community meetings
Details about the meeting on this thread: https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics/discussions/5675
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Terraform AWS 4.0 Provider migration
We have a request in KICS (Keep IaC secure, https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics) to support AWS 4.0 provider and I wondered how fast did people adopt it and did the required changes.
- Question for the Argo-Verse
kubescape
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubescape.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.
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CodiumAI PR-Agent Dominates the Dev World with Versatility and Open-Source Power
CodiumAI PR-Agent’s influence extends deeply within open-source projects. An exemplary illustration is Kubespace, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Since its adoption in August, Kubespace has been utilizing the PR-Agent service. They also recently had a public bug bounty collaboration with CodiumAI. This program added an extra layer of community-driven scrutiny, encouraging contributors to utilize simple commands like /describe for effective pull request messages. Here the contributor wanted to better describe the PR, so he used the /describe prompt.
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Kubescape 3.0 is available to enhance your K8s security experience
Kubescape is the first Kubernetes security scanner that was accepted to the cloud native computing foundation. Kubescape 3.0 is a major release that extended the functionality of the original misconfiguration scanner to include vulnerabilities and usabillty improvements. If you are interested in an overview, feel free to check out the blog post. To dive straight into the code check out the repo. I'd love it hear what you think. What you like, what can be improved and of course, if you have any questions, hit me up.
- Shrink to Secure: Kubernetes and Secure Compact Containers
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An Overview of Kubernetes Security Projects at KubeCon Europe 2023
Kubescape is a comprehensive Kubernetes security platform and CNCF sandbox project. It can scan clusters, Helm charts, and YAML manifests to detect misconfigurations. It supports various frameworks, including NSA-CISA, MITRE ATT&CK®, and the CIS Benchmark.
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My CNCF LFX Mentorship Spring 2023 Project at Kubescape
Publishing
- K8s security just got easier. A single Open-Source security tool that seamlessly integrates into your entire stack.
- Scan manifest files (YAML and helm charts) directly from GitHub even with no clusters in place + assisted remediation for FREE.
- Don't let Kubernetes misconfigurations delay your deployment. Auto-scan manifest files directly from GitHub + assisted remediation.
- Detect critical vulnerabilities earlier in the development process and prevent CVEs from reaching production environments.
- Kubescape makes RBAC easy. Instantly reveal all the roles, resources, and relevant relationships to manage secure clusters.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kics and kubescape you can also consider the following projects:
checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
falco - Cloud Native Runtime Security
terrascan - Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
kubeaudit - kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
CheatSheetSeries - The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to provide a concise collection of high value information on specific application security topics.
terrascan - Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure. [Moved to: https://github.com/accurics/terrascan]
grype - A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
kube-linter - KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.
kubesec - Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources