pike VS terrascan

‍Pike is a tool that analyzes Terraform managed resources and automatically generates the necessary IAM permissions, improving security by ensuring that only the minimum necessary permissions are granted.

I test out the Api the hard way, I make a resource and test it with a role that doesnt have the permissions (see the folder i linked), the Api (with azure anyway) tells you what you lack, azure tends to be simpler with crud permissions than aws. I then have another privilege tole that can update the first with each permission and iterate: https://github.com/JamesWoolfenden/pike/tree/master/terraform/azurerm, i then create the mapping file for that resource and add it. I can show you if you need help - send me an email/message/zoom. If you figure a better way i'm all ears, but this way I can be sure on what permissions are required.

You can run my tool pike on your tf to generate iam for aws and gcp. Get it here https://github.com/jamesWoolfenden/pike

I wrote a small tool called Pike. It looks at your TF code and determines and create the IAM policy/Tf resource required to build it. To help you stick to least privilege in your build process. It currently supports a small but growing sub-set of AWS resources, it will support other providers. Use it or ?, but would welcome feedback https://github.com/JamesWoolfenden/pike . Its open source and always will be.

Terrascan Owner/Maintainer: Tenable (acquired in 2022) Age: First release on GitHub on November 28th, 2017 License: Apache License 2.0

‍Terrascan is a static code analysis tool that scans your Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for security vulnerabilities and compliance violations. It supports multiple platforms like (AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s, Atlantis, etc), including Terraform. Terrascan allows you to enforce security best practices, compliance policies, and governance across your IaC deployments.

Terrascan could also be useful : https://github.com/tenable/terrascan

Terrascan - Scan for Infrastructure-as-Code vulnerabilities

(https://runterrascan.io/) They seem to like it, don't have a ton of my own experience though.

Nessus Expert - newer offering. Nessus Pro + terrascan + basic external attack surface mapping. Doesn’t scan from the internet, but shows you all your public domains, DNS, etc so you can pick what you want to scan/ fix

It is always a good practice to scan your Kubernetes deployment or Helm chart before deploying. We can use Checkov to scans Kubernetes manifests and identifies security and configuration issues. It also supports Helm chart scanning. We can also use terrascan and kubeLinter to scan the Kubernetes manifest.

terrascan: https://github.com/tenable/terrascan