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Introduction

GuardRails Cloud detects cloud security configuration vulnerabilities in your code base by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning of configuration files.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Scanning:

IaC Security Scanning is a security practice that involves analyzing your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configuration files and templates to identify potential security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. As organizations increasingly adopt IaC to automate and manage their infrastructure, ensuring the security of these code-based configurations becomes essential in preventing unauthorized access, data breaches, and other security incidents.

Key Benefits:

  1. Proactive Security: GuardRails Cloud helps identify and address security misconfigurations before they are deployed, reducing the risk of infrastructure-related security incidents.
  2. Consistent Security Posture: By scanning IaC templates, you can ensure that your infrastructure is consistently secure across various environments, such as development, staging, and production.
  3. Compliance: GuardRails Cloud helps your organization adhere to industry standards and regulatory requirements by ensuring that your infrastructure configurations meet security best practices.
  4. Efficient Remediation: By detecting security issues in IaC files, developers can address vulnerabilities directly within the code, streamlining the remediation process and minimizing infrastructure downtime.

By integrating GuardRails Cloud into your development process, you can enhance your infrastructure's security, maintain a consistent security posture across environments, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Key Differentiators:

  1. Accuracy: GuardRails Cloud is continuously tuned and improved with a focus on increasing accuracy, reducing irrelevant rules, and avoiding false positives.
  2. Custom Rules: GuardRails Code supports custom rules for a wide range of languages by leveraging Semgrep.
  3. Fixing Advice: Most IaC tools stop when they have identified the issue. At GuardRails, we understand that this is just the beginning. GuardRails Cloud comes with detailed and specific fixing advice to ensure developers can fix vulnerabilities without requiring external help.

Supported languages:

Supported Cloud providers are AWS, GCP, and Azure. The following IaC technologies are supported:

  • HashiCorp Terraform
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Google Deployment Manager
  • Docker
Last updated on by Stefan Streichsbier