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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.

(blue star) → looks very promising or seems to have widespread use

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.
    • (tick) cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian – Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on 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
    • tmobile/pacbot – Policy as Code Bot (PacBot) is a platform for continuous compliance monitoring, compliance reporting and security automation for the cloud.
    • darkbitio/aws-recon – Multi-threaded AWS inventory collection tool with a focus on security-relevant resources and metadata.
    • righteousgambitresearch/quiet-riot – Unauthenticated enumeration of services, roles, and users in an AWS account or in every AWS account in existence.
    • fivexl/terraform-aws-cloudtrail-to-slack – Terraform module that deploys resources to parse AWS CloudTrail events and send alerts to Slack for events that match pre-configured rules
    • cloudquery/cloudquery – Open-source cloud asset inventory powered by SQL. Can also perform Terraform drift checks.
    • turbot/steampipe – Use SQL to instantly query your cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP and more). Open source CLI. No DB required.
    • simonw/s3-credentials –  A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets. Helps generate tightly-scoped IAM policies limited to a single prefix within a single bucket.
    • nccgroup/ScoutSuite - Scout Suite is an open source multi-cloud security-auditing tool, which enables security posture assessment of cloud environments.
  •  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
    • awslabs/git-secrets – Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories

    • 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
    • zricethezav/gitleaks – Scan git repos (or files) for secrets using regex and entropy 
  • S3

Useful Articles

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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