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Unless otherwise noted, we have not used or evaluated evaluated these tools. As per usual with open source tools, be sure to evaluate tools before adopting them to ensure they are worthy of your trust.

(tick) → CIT Cloud Team has used the tool.

IAM-Specific Tools

Tools that Help Secure AWS Resources

  • Multiple Resource Types
    • (tick) asecure.cloud –  Creates customized CloudFormation/Terraform templates to improve security of existing AWS resources, or deploy secured resources.
    • toniblyx/prowler – Prowler is a security tool to perform AWS security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness.
    • aquasecurity/cloudsploit – Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
    • airbnb/streamalert – StreamAlert is a serverless, realtime data analysis framework which empowers you to ingest, analyze, and alert on data from any environment, using datasources and alerting logic you define.
    • RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu – The AWS exploitation framework, designed for testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments.
    • Netflix/security_monkey – Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
    • RiotGames/cloud-inquisitor – Enforce ownership and data security within AWS
  •  CloudFormation
    • cfripper – Library and CLI tool for analyzing CloudFormation templates and check them for security compliance
    • stelligent/cfn_nag – The cfn-nag tool looks for patterns in CloudFormation templates that may indicate insecure infrastructure.
  • Keys and Secrets
    • exec-with-secrets – Handle secrets in Docker using AWS KMS, SSM parameter store, Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault
    • dxa4481/truffleHog – Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
  • S3

Training and Tutorials

  • AWS Security Workshops – A collection of the latest AWS Security workshops from AWS
  • Serverless Security Workshop – In this workshop, you will learn techniques to secure a serverless application built with AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway and RDS Aurora. From AWS
  • flAWS 2 Challenge – Teaches you AWS (Amazon Web Services) security concepts. The challenges are focused on AWS specific issues, so no buffer overflows, XSS, etc. Able to be attacker or defender for challenges.


Other Compilations of Security Resources

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