myinfra VS PMapper

Graphviz is awesome!

Here are a couple of my diagrams:

https://beepb00p.xyz/blog-graph.html -- graph of my blog pages with tags/connections between posts, generated with a DSL-ish python script https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p/blob/master/misc/index...

https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html -- map of my personal data & infrastructure (discussed a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26269832 ). Also a similar DSL https://github.com/karlicoss/myinfra/blob/master/generate.py

The main downside for me is that sometimes it gets the positioning wrong, and you can see how it can be easily fixed, but it's hard to convince graphviz to actually do so. Basically I'd love a tool where I can do 10% of positioning manually and let the rest be constraint based like in graphviz.

Not the first time, but possibly the biggest thing I've drawn in it...

There definitely are some weird things when you try to plot complicated things, fighting with weird placement, clusters etc. But not sure if it's me or Graphviz to blame for this. But I don't really know a better tool. If I knew how the diagram would look in hindsight I might have drawn in manually in inkscape or something, but when I started I didn't know what I would end up with, so needed to be an automatic tool :)

To minimize the manual work, I ended up with a mix of DSL in python and raw graphviz commands: https://github.com/karlicoss/myinfra/blob/fc6345c31c4e49b534...

Depending on the things you want to represent a better fit might be force layout, for example something like https://observablehq.com/@morvasaaty/d3-force-notes

In addition to ScoutSuite, I recommend PMapper. https://github.com/nccgroup/PMapper

There are tons of other escape hatches, so it's a pretty big moving target. If you'd like to get a hint about your setup, I'd suggest trying: https://github.com/nccgroup/PMapper

I maintain an open-source project [1] that uses graphs to model data. I wanted to make my project as accessible as possible, so Graphviz was perfect since it's dead-simple to install and use on all major OS platforms.

[1] https://github.com/nccgroup/PMapper

Hi HN!

Principal Mapper is a tool + library for analyzing and securing your AWS IAM configuration. It generates a model of your account and/or organization and uses it to give you a better idea of the effective permissions of your IAM Users and Roles. It has privilege escalation detection built-in and is hopefully written in a way that will let you extend it for your use-cases.

This v1.1.0 update covers more types of policies (resource policies, permission boundaries, session policies, SCPs), supports AWS Organizations, enables cross-account checks, and more!

https://github.com/nccgroup/PMapper

Happy to answer any questions you have here!