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| Name | Description | Popularity | Metadata |
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| My Arsenal of AWS Security Tools | This list of open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, DFIR, etc. |
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| Prowler | Prowler is an Open Source Security tool for AWS, Azure and GCP to perform Cloud Security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, compliance, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, Well-Architected Security, ENS and more. (Python) |
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| CloudMapper | helps you analyze your AWS environments (Python) |
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| ScoutSuite | Multi-Cloud Security auditing tool for AWS Google Cloud and Azure environments (python) |
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| CloudCustodian | Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources |
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| ICE | Ice provides insights from a usage and cost perspective with high detail dashboards. |
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| CloudSploit Scans | AWS security scanning checks (NodeJS) |
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| AWS Network Access Analyzer | Automation for Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer to identify all possible Internet Gateway reachability for your resources across all your AWS accounts |
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| CloudTracker | helps you find over-privileged IAM users and roles by comparing CloudTrail logs with current IAM policies (Python) |
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| AWS Security Benchmarks | scripts and templates guidance related to the AWS CIS Foundation framework (Python) |
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| AWS Public IPs | Fetch all public IP addresses tied to your AWS account. Works with IPv4/IPv6 Classic/VPC networking and across all AWS services (Ruby) |
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| PMapper | Advanced and Automated AWS IAM Evaluation (Python) |
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| nccgroup AWS-Inventory | Make a inventory of all your resources across regions (Python) |
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| Resource Counter | Counts number of resources in categories across regions |
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| SkyArk | SkyArk provides advanced discovery and security assessment for the most privileged entities in the tested AWS. |
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| findmytakeover | find dangling domains in a multi cloud environment |
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| Trailblazer AWS | Trailblazer AWS determine what AWS API calls are logged by CloudTrail and what they are logged as. You can also use TrailBlazer as an attack simulation framework. |
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| Lunar | Security auditing tool based on several security frameworks (it does some AWS checks) |
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| Cloud-reports | Scans your AWS cloud resources and generates reports |
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| Pacbot | Platform for continuous compliance monitoring compliance reporting and security automation for the cloud |
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| cs-suite | Integrates tools like Scout2 and Prowler among others |
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| aws-key-disabler | A small lambda script that will disable access keys older than a given amount of days |
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| Antiope | AWS Inventory and Compliance Framework |
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| Cloud Reports | Scans your AWS cloud resources and generates reports and includes security best practices. |
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| Terraform AWS Secure Baseline | Terraform module to set up your AWS account with the secure |
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| ZeusCloud | Discover, prioritize, and remediate security risks in your AWS cloud environments. |
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| Cartography | Cartography is a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database. |
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| TrailScraper | A command-line tool to get valuable information out of AWS CloudTrail |
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| Komiser | Cloud Environment Inspector analyze and manage cloud cost usage security and governance in one place. |
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| Perimeterator | AWS perimeter monitoring. Periodically scan internet facing AWS resources to detect misconfigured services |
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| PolicySentry | IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator auditor and analysis database |
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| Zeus | AWS Auditing & Hardening Tool |
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| janiko71 AWS-inventory | Python script for AWS resources inventory |
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| awspx | A graph-based tool for visualizing effective access and resource relationships in AWS environments |
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| clinv | DevSecOps command line asset inventory tool |
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| aws-gate | Enhanced AWS SSM Session manager CLI client |
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| Detecting Credential Compromise | Detecting of your compromised credential in AWS |
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| AWS-Security-Toolbox (AST) | AWS Security Toolbox (Docker Image) for Security Assessments |
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| iam-lint | Github action for linting AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and possible security issues |
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| aws-security-viz | A tool to visualize aws security groups. |
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| AirIAM | Least privilege AWS IAM using Terraform |
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| Cloudsplaining | AWS IAM Security Assessment tool that identifies violations of least privilege and generates a risk-prioritized HTML report. |
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| iam-policy-generator | A simple library to generate IAM policy statements with no need to remember all the actions APIs |
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| SkyWrapper | SkyWrapper helps to discover suspicious creation forms and uses of temporary tokens in AWS |
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| aws-recon | Multi-threaded AWS inventory collection tool |
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| iam-policies-cli | A CLI tool for building simple to complex IAM policies |
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| Aaia | AWS Identity and Access Management Visualizer and Anomaly Finder |
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| iam-floyd | IAM policy statement generator with fluent interface - Available for Node.js, Python, .Net and Java |
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| rpCheckup | AWS resource policy security checkup tool that identifies public, external account access, intra-org account access, and private resources. |
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| S3 Exif Cleaner | Remove EXIF data from all objects in an S3 bucket |
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| Steampipe | Use SQL to instantly query your cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP and more). Open source CLI. No DB required. (SQL) |
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| access-undenied-aws | Parses AWS AccessDenied CloudTrail events, explains the reasons for them, and offers actionable remediation steps. |
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| Metabadger | Prevent SSRF attacks on AWS EC2 via automated upgrades to the more secure Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2). |
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| AWS-Firewall Factory | Deploy, update, and stage your WAFs while managing them centrally via FMS (CDK) |
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| IAMSpy | A library that utilises the Z3 prover to attempt to answer questions about AWS IAM. |
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| nuvola | Dump and perform automatic and manual security analysis on AWS environments configurations and services using predefined, extensible and custom rules created using a simple Yaml syntax |
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| aws-security-architectures | Architectures for AWS security. (Detect, Alarm, Macie, etc.) Many architectures will be added in the future. |
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| MetaHub for AWS Security Hub | MetaHub is the CLI utility for AWS Security Hub which provides you with extra functionality like grouping your findings by affected reources, executing MetaChecks and MetaTags directly in the affected resource for enriching your findings, filters on top of MetaChecks and MetaTags, different reports like CSV, JSON and HTML, bulk updates, and enriching your findings directly in AWS Security Hub. |
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| Matano | Matano is an open source cloud-native security lake platform (SIEM alternative) for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS. |
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| aws-list-resources | Uses the AWS Cloud Control API to list resources that are present in a given AWS account and region(s). Discovered resources are written to a JSON output file. |
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| aws-summarize-account-activity | Analyzes CloudTrail data of a given AWS account and generates a summary of recently active IAM principals, API calls they made and regions that were used. The summary is written to a JSON output file and can optionally be visualized as PNG files. |
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| aws-lint-iam-policies | Runs IAM policy linting checks against either a single AWS account or all accounts of an AWS Organization. Reports on policies that violate security best practices or contain errors. Supports both identity-based and resource-based policies. |
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| cloud-audit | AWS security scanner with attack chain detection (31 chains correlating findings into exploit paths) and IAM privilege escalation analysis (25 methods, replacing the abandoned PMapper). 94 curated checks across 23 AWS services with copy-paste AWS CLI + Terraform remediation for every finding. CIS AWS v3.0 compliance at 89% automation. Featured in Help Net Security (March 2026). (Python) |
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| cloudfox | Find exploitable attack paths in cloud infrastructure |
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| WeirdAAL | AWS Attack Library |
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| Pacu | AWS penetration testing toolkit |
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| Cred Scanner | A simple file-based scanner to look for potential AWS access and secret keys in files |
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| AWS PWN | A collection of AWS penetration testing junk |
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| Cloudfrunt | A tool for identifying misconfigured CloudFront domains |
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| Cloudjack | Route53/CloudFront Vulnerability Assessment Utility |
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| Nimbostratus | Tools for fingerprinting and exploiting Amazon cloud infrastructures |
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| GitLeaks | Audit git repos for secrets |
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| TruffleHog | Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets digging deep into commit history |
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| DumpsterDiver | "Tool to search secrets in various filetypes like keys (e.g. AWS Access Key Azure Share Key or SSH keys) or passwords." |
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| Mad-King | Proof of Concept Zappa Based AWS Persistence and Attack Platform |
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| Cloud-Nuke | A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it |
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| MozDef - The Mozilla Defense Platform | The Mozilla Defense Platform (MozDef) seeks to automate the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers. |
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| Lambda-Proxy | A bridge between SQLMap and AWS Lambda which lets you use SQLMap to natively test AWS Lambda functions for SQL Injection vulnerabilities. |
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| CloudCopy | Cloud version of the Shadow Copy attack against domain controllers running in AWS using only the EC2:CreateSnapshot permission |
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| enumerate-iam | Enumerate the permissions associated with AWS credential set |
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| Barq | A post-exploitation framework that allows you to easily perform attacks on a running AWS infrastructure |
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| CCAT | Cloud Container Attack Tool (CCAT) is a tool for testing security of container environments |
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| Dufflebag | Search exposed EBS volumes for secrets |
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| attack_range | A tool that allows you to create vulnerable instrumented local or cloud environments to simulate attacks against and collect the data into Splunk |
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| whispers | Identify hardcoded secrets and dangerous behaviours |
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| Redboto | Red Team AWS Scripts |
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| CloudBrute | A tool to find a company (target) infrastructure, files, and apps on the top cloud providers |
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| Jiraffe | Security reconnaissance and vulnerability scanner for Atlassian Jira, focused on misconfigurations, unauthenticated access, and CVE validation, with SSRF helpers for cloud metadata targets |
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| Stratus Red Team | Granular, Actionable Adversary Emulation for the Cloud |
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| Leonidas | Automated Attack Simulation in the Cloud complete with detection use cases. |
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| Amazon Guardduty Tester | This script is used to generate some basic detections of the GuardDuty service |  |
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| Security Monkey |
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| Krampus |
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| Cloud Inquisitor |
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| Disable keys after X days |
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| Repokid Least Privilege |
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| Wazuh CloudTrail module |
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| Hammer |
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| Streamalert |
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| Billing Alerts CFN templates |
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| Watchmen | AWS account compliance using centrally managed Config Rules |
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| ElectricEye | Continuously monitor your AWS services for configurations that can lead to degradation of confidentiality, integrity or availability |
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| SyntheticSun | a defense-in-depth security automation and monitoring framework which utilizes threat intelligence, machine learning, managed AWS security services and, serverless technologies to continuously prevent, detect and respond to threats |
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| CloudQuery | cloudquery exposes your cloud configuration and metadata as sql tables, providing powerful analysis and monitoring for compliance and security |
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| PrismX | Cloud Security Dashboard for AWS - based on ScoutSuite |
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| Falco | Threat detection and response for containers, hosts, Kubernetes and the cloud |
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| AWS IR | AWS specific Incident Response and Forensics Tool |
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| Margaritashotgun | Linux memory remote acquisition tool |
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| Diffy | Triage tool used during cloud-centric security incidents |
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| AWS Security Automation | AWS scripts and resources for DevSecOps and automated incident response |
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| GDPatrol | Automated Incident Response based off AWS GuardDuty findings |
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| AWSlog | Show the history and changes between configuration versions of AWS resources using AWS Config |
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| DataCop | Automated IR process that mitigates vulnerable AWS S3 buckets that are defined by AWS Macie results. |
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| AWS_Responder | AWS Digital Forensic and Incident Response (DFIR) Response Python Scripts |
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| SSM-Acquire | A python module for orchestrating content acquisitions and analysis via Amazon SSM |
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| cloudtrail-partitioner | This project sets up partitioned Athena tables for your CloudTrail logs and updates the partitions nightly. Makes CloudTrail logs queries easier. |
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| fargate-ir | Proof of concept incident response demo using SSM and AWS Fargate. |
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| aws-logsearch | Search AWS CloudWatch logs all at once on the command line. |
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| Varna | Quick & Cheap AWS CloudTrail Monitoring with Event Query Language (EQL) |
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| aws-auto-remediate | Open source application to instantly remediate common security issues through the use of AWS Config |
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| panther-labs | Detect threats with log data and improve cloud security posture |
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| aws-incident-response | This page is a collection of useful things to look for in CloudTrail using Athena for AWS incident response |
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| cloud-forensics-utils | Python library to carry out DFIR analysis on the Cloud |
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| aws-fast-fixes | Scripts to quickly fix security and compliance issues |
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| Automated Security Helper (ASH) | ASH is a one stop shop for code security scans, and does not require any installation. It will identify the relevant frameworks, and download the relevant, up to date tools. ASH is running on isolated Docker containers, keeping the user environment clean, with a single aggregated report. The following frameworks are supported: Git, Python, Javascript, Cloudformation, Terraform and Jupyter notebook. |
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| CFN NAG | CloudFormation security test (Ruby) |
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| Git-secrets |
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| Repository of sample Custom Rules for AWS Config |
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| CFripper | "Lambda function to ""rip apart"" a CloudFormation template and check it for security compliance." |
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| Assume | A simple CLI utility that makes it easier to switch between different AWS roles |
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| Terrascan | A collection of security and best practice tests for static code analysis of terraform templates using terraform_validate |
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| tfsec | Provides static analysis of your terraform templates to spot potential security issues |
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| Checkov | Terraform, Cloudformation and Kubernetes static analysis written in python |
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| Yor | Automatically tag and trace infrastructure as code frameworks (Terraform, Cloudformation and Serverless) |
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| pytest-services | Unit testing framework for test driven security of AWS configurations and more |
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| IAM Least-Privileged Role Generator | A Serverless framework plugin that statically analyzes AWS Lambda function code and automagically generates least-privileged IAM roles. |
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| AWS Vault | A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments |
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| AWS Service Control Policies | Collection of semi-useful Service Control Policies and scripts to manage them |
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| Terraform-compliance | A lightweight security focused BDD test framework against terraform (with helpful code for AWS) |
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| Get a List of AWS Managed Policies | a way to get a list of all AWS managed policies |
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| Parliament | AWS IAM linting library |
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| AWS-ComplianceMachineDontStop | Proof of Value Terraform Scripts to utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Identity & Compliance Services to Support your AWS Account Security Posture |
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| detect-secrets | An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code. |
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| tf-parliament | Run Parliament AWS IAM Checker on Terraform Files |
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| aws-gate | Better AWS SSM Session manager CLI client |
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| iam-lint | Github action for linting AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and possible security issues |
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| Regula | Regula checks Terraform for AWS security and compliance using Open Policy Agent/Rego |
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| whispers | Identify hardcoded secrets and dangerous behaviours |
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| cloudformation-guard | A set of tools to check AWS CloudFormation templates for policy compliance using a simple, policy-as-code, declarative syntax. |
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| IAMFinder | Enumerates and finds users and IAM roles in a target AWS account |
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| iamlive | Generate a basic IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring (CSM) |
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| aws-allowlister | Automatically compile an AWS Service Control Policy that ONLY allows AWS services that are compliant with your preferred compliance frameworks. |
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| Leapp | Cross-platform app for managing AWS credentials programmatically, based on Electron |
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| KICS | Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code |
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| SecurityHub CIS Compliance Automator | Automatically configure your AWS Account to meet 95% of the 200+ controls for CIS Compliance, PCI DSS Compliance and AWS Security Best Practice |
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| SCPkit | A SCP management tool that helps condense policies |
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| Codemodder | A pluggable framework for building expressive codemods. Use Codemodder when you need more than a linter or code formatting tool. Use it to fix non-trivial security issues and other code quality problems |
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| mass3 | enumerate through a pre-compiled list of AWS S3 buckets using DNS instead of HTTP with a list of DNS resolvers and multi-threading |
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| teh_s3_bucketeers |
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| bucket-stream | Find interesting Amazon S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs |
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| s3-buckets-finder | brute force Amazon S3 bucket |
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| s3find | find S3 public buckets |
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| slurp-robbie | Enumerate S3 buckets via certstream, domain, or keywords |
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| s3-inspector | check AWS S3 bucket permissions |
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| s3-fuzzer |
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| AWSBucketDump | Look For Interesting Files in S3 Buckets |
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| s3scan | scan s3 buckets for security issues |
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| S3Scanner | Scan for open AWS S3 buckets and dump the contents |
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| s3finder | open S3 bucket finder |
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| S3Scan | spider a website and find publicly open S3 buckets |
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| s3-meta | Gather metadata about your S3 buckets |
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| s3-utils | Utilities and tools based around Amazon S3 to provide convenience APIs in a CLI |
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| S3PublicBucketsCheck | A lambda function that checks your account for Public buckets and emails you whenever a new public s3 bucket is created |  |
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| bucket_finder | Amazon bucket brute force tool |
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| inSp3ctor | AWS S3 Bucket/Object Finder |
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| bucketcat | Brute-forces objects within a given bucket using Hashcat mask-like syntax |
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| aws-s3-data-finder | AWS S3 Sensitive Data Search |
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| lazys3 | bruteforce AWS s3 buckets using different permutations |
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| BucketScanner | Test objects' permissions in AWS buckets |
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| aws-externder-cli | Test S3 buckets as well as Google Storage buckets and Azure Storage containers to find interesting files |
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| festin | S3 bucket weakness discovery |
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| S3Insights | a platform for efficiently deriving security insights about S3 data through metadata analysis |
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| s3_objects_check | Whitebox evaluation of effective S3 object permissions, to identify publicly accessible files. |
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| s3dns | Passive DNS-based discovery of S3 (and other cloud) buckets by resolving CNAMEs and IPs during recon—ideal for stealthy and early identification of cloud storage exposures |
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| Flaws.cloud | flAWS challenge to learn through a series of levels about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS | ||
| Flaws2.cloud | flAWS 2 has two paths this time Attacker and Defender! In the Attacker path you'll exploit your way through misconfigurations in serverless (Lambda) and containers (ECS Fargate). In the Defender path that target is now viewed as the victim and you'll work as an incident responder for that same app understanding how an attack happened | ||
| CloudGoat | Vulnerable by Design AWS infrastructure setup tool |
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| dvca | Damn Vulnerable Cloud Application more info |
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| AWSDetonationLab | Scripts and templates to generate some basic detections of the AWS security services |
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| OWASPServerlessGoat | OWASP ServerlessGoat is a deliberately insecure realistic AWS Lambda serverless application maintained by OWASP for educational purposes. Single click installation through the AWS Serverless Application Repository. |
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| Sadcloud | A tool for spinning up insecure AWS infrastructure with Terraform. It supports approx. 84 misconfigurations across 22 AWS Services. |
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| BigOrange Actions | Paste your IAM Policy and get a list of Actions it can effectively perform | ||
| IncidentResponseGenerator | Incident response generator for training classes |
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| Breaking and Pwning Apps and Servers on AWS and Azure | Course content, lab setup instructions and documentation of our very popular Breaking and Pwning Apps and Servers on AWS and Azure hands on training! |
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| terragoat | "Vulnerable by Design" Terraform repository. TerraGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments. |
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| cfngoat | "Vulnerable by Design" cloudformation repository. CfnGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments. |
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| CDKgoat | "Vulnerable by Design" AWS CDK repository. CDKGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into impartive IAC such as AWS CDK. |
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| aws_exposable_resources | Resource types that can be publicly exposed on AWS |
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| IAM Vulnerable | Use Terraform to create your own vulnerable by design AWS IAM privilege escalation playground |
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| PenTesting.Cloud | Free AWS Security Labs - CTF Style | ||
| AWSGoat : A Damn Vulnerable AWS Infrastructure | AWSGoat is a vulnerable by design AWS infrastructure featuring OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and AWS service based misconfigurations. |
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Honey-token:
- https://bitbucket.org/asecurityteam/spacecrab
- https://breachinsider.com/honey-buckets/
- https://github.com/0x4D31/honeyLambda
- https://github.com/thinkst/canarytokens-docker
More Resources:
- asecure.cloud https://github.com/asecure.cloud A repository of cutomizable AWS security configurations (Cloudformation and CLI templates)
- s3-leaks https://github.com/nagwww/s3-leaks - a list of some biggest leaks recorded
- Model Risk AWS https://magoo.github.io/model-risk-aws/ - POC about probabilistic risk model for AWS
- asecure.cloud https://asecure.cloud/ - a great place for security resources regarding AWS Security.
- honeybuckets https://github.com/honey-buckets/
- thebuckhacker https://github.com/thebuckhacker
- buckets.grayhatwarfare https://github.com/buckets.grayhatwarfare
- Cloud Security Newsletter by Marco Lancini https://cloudseclist.com/
- Cloud Security Podcast by Ashish Rajan https://www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
- AWS Security Primer By Michael Wittig https://cloudonaut.io/aws-security-primer/
- Hacking The Cloud https://hackingthe.cloud/
- ThreatModel for Amazon S3 https://github.com/trustoncloud/threatmodel-for-aws-s3 - Library of all the attack scenarios on Amazon S3 and how to mitigate them, following a risk-based approach