prowler VS steampipe

1. Prowler: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler Prowler provides security best practices assessments, audits, incident response readiness, and continuous monitoring for AWS environments.

Which cloud provider?

https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler is easy to get going with, and gives decent results. It's much stronger at AWS than GCP or Azure.

Steampipe can be a little harder to wrap your head around, but scales really well and has broader support: https://hub.steampipe.io/mods?objectives=security

Task Role: Select or create a new role that has the necessary permissions. Ensure this role has the three required Prowler policies and an additional custom policy to put objects into the desired S3 bucket.

Prowler and ScoutSuite are a good start for cloud stuff.

Yes! There are open source cloud security tools! Here are some open source tools out there: steampipe, prowler, cloudquery, and ZeusCloud.

If AWS is in use then i would add prowler to the list - https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler This is the best open source cspm for aws.

More info you can find it at Prowler Github and Prowler Docs

You’re not going to find a shiny enterprise web ui for free but there are tools out there. If you just want to review AWS accounts, you can use prowler https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

Steampipe is a tool for querying cloud APIs and other data sources using SQL in a zero-ETL manner.

Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source CLI to live query Google Sheets [2] and 140+ other services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc across the services. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

be mindful of its AGPLv3 https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.21.8/LICENSE (AFAIK v0.4.3 is the last MIT release https://github.com/turbot/steampipe/blob/v0.4.3/LICENSE ) and the actual providers are Apache 2 <https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-aws/blob/v0.131.0...> (but I don't know if provider drift makes them compatible with 0.4 or not)

iasql seems to be AWS only, but good for them for taking this on:

In a prior post I showed how to install Steampipe in AWS CloudShell to instantly query over 460+ resource types from your AWS APIs using SQL, and another post on how to use the Steampipe AWS Compliance mod to assess over 25+ security benchmarks across your AWS accounts.

Readers may find Steampipe's [1] AWS Thrifty Mod [2] useful. It will automatically scan multiple accounts and regions for 50 cost saving opportunities - many of which are looking for over-provisioned or unused resources. For example, it's crazy how much you can save by doing things like just converting your EBS volumes to the newer gp3 type. Combine with Flowpipe [3] to automate checks and actions. It's all open source and extensible.

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

Steampipe [1] is an open source project [2] that includes an embedded Postgres to instantly query cloud, code & more with SQL. This release expands our plugin ecosystem [3] to be a full Zero-ETL platform. Steampipe plugins can now run natively in your own Postgres as Foreign Data Wrappers [4], as SQLite extensions [5] or as simple data export tools [6]. Please give it a try, we'd love your feedback and contributions!

1 - https://steampipe.io