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.
→ CIT Cloud Team has used the tool.
→ looks very promising or seems to have widespread use
IAM-Specific Tools
- Access Key Management
- awscli-login – Access Keys for AWS CLI Using Cornell Two-Step Login - Shibboleth
- 99designs/aws-vault – A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments
- rapid7/awsaml – Awsaml is an application for providing automatically rotated temporary AWS credentials.
- RiotGames/key-conjurer – Temporary Credential Service
- aws-rotate-key – Easily rotate your AWS access key
- synfinatic/aws-sso-cli – Tool to make it easier to use AWS SSO for the CLI and web console.
- IAM/Resources Policy
- AWS Policy Generator – The AWS Policy Generator is a tool that enables you to create policies that control access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and resources.
- salesforce/policy_sentry – IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator
- duo-labs/cloudtracker – CloudTracker helps you find over-privileged IAM users and roles by comparing CloudTrail logs with current IAM policies.
- goldfiglabs/rpCheckup – rpCheckup is an AWS resource policy security checkup tool that identifies public, external account access, intra-org account access, and private resources.
- iann0036/iamlive – Generate an IAM policy from AWS calls using client-side monitoring (CSM) or embedded proxy
- Netflix/repokid – Repokid removes permissions granting access to unused services from the inline policies of IAM roles in an AWS account.
- aminohealth/wonk - tool that analyzes IAM policies and minimizes them to fit under IAM policy length limits
- aws.permissions.cloud – uses a variety of information gathered within the IAM Dataset and exposes that information in a clean, easy-to-read format.
Tools that Help Secure AWS Resources
- Multiple Resource Types
- asecure.cloud – Creates customized CloudFormation/Terraform templates to improve security of existing AWS resources, or deploy secured resources.
- 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
- Github Actions & AWS OIDC
- GitHub Actions: Secure cloud deployments with OpenID Connect – GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for secure deployments to cloud, which uses short-lived tokens that are automatically rotated for each deployment.
- AWS Access Keys - A Reference — This post outlines how to identify the different types of keys, where you’re likely to find them across the different services, and the order of access precedence for the different SDKs and tools.
- IAM Vulnerable - Assessing the AWS Assessment Tools
- AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions
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
- puresec/awesome-serverless-security – A curated list of serverless security resources such as (e)books, articles, whitepapers, blogs and research papers.
- toniblyx/my-arsenal-of-aws-security-tools – List of open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, DFIR, etc.