Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security
Secure your blueprint before it becomes your cloud. IaC security scanning, Policy-as-Code enforcement with OPA/Sentinel, CI/CD pipeline security gates, and infrastructure drift management for Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates.
Scanning · Pipeline · Drift
From IaC static analysis and CI/CD gate integration through Policy-as-Code enforcement and infrastructure drift detection.
IaC Scanning & Analysis
Automated and manual scanning of your Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and ARM templates for security misconfigurations — catching vulnerable settings before they ever reach your cloud environment.
- Terraform & Terragrunt HCL scanning
- CloudFormation template security review
- ARM / Bicep template analysis
- Ansible playbook security auditing
Shift-Left CI/CD Security Gates
Integrating IaC security scanning directly into your CI/CD pipelines — blocking deployments that introduce critical misconfigurations before they can reach production.
- GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Azure DevOps integration
- Automated pull request security checks
- Policy-as-Code enforcement with OPA/Sentinel
- Developer-facing feedback and remediation guidance
Infrastructure Drift Detection
Identifying and managing divergence between your infrastructure code and the actual state of your cloud environment — preventing unmanaged resources and undocumented manual changes from creating hidden risk.
- Config drift detection (code vs. runtime)
- Unmanaged resource identification
- State file security review
- Backporting manual changes to IaC
One Bad Template Can Deploy Misconfigurations at Scale
Infrastructure as Code accelerates cloud deployment — but it also accelerates the propagation of security misconfigurations. A single overly-permissive security group or publicly accessible S3 bucket definition in a Terraform module can be deployed across dozens of environments before anyone notices.
Shifting IaC security left — into code review and CI/CD pipelines — is the most cost-effective and operationally efficient place to catch and fix these issues. The earlier the detection, the cheaper the remediation.
Template Misconfiguration
Identifying insecure resource definitions before they deploy to any environment.
Module Security Review
Auditing Terraform modules used across multiple environments for inherited risks.
Secrets in Code
Detecting hardcoded secrets, tokens, and passwords committed to IaC repositories.
State File Protection
Securing Terraform state backends against unauthorized access and data exposure.
5-Phase IaC Security Engagement
From IaC inventory and automated scanning through manual review, CI/CD integration, and Policy-as-Code delivery.
IaC Inventory & Toolchain Review
We inventory all IaC repositories, module sources, and configuration management tooling. We understand your team's IaC authoring, review, and deployment workflows before assessing findings in that context.
Automated Static Analysis
We run Checkov, tfsec, and Terrascan across all IaC codebases — executing multiple scanning engines to maximize coverage and cross-validate findings before manual review.
Manual Review & False Positive Elimination
Automated IaC scanners generate significant false positive volumes. We manually review all high and critical findings to contextualize each one — eliminating false positives and adding exploitability context.
CI/CD Pipeline Integration Assessment
We review your existing pipeline security gates — or design new ones — for each CI/CD platform in use. We produce integration configs for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps that your team can adopt immediately.
Policy-as-Code Development & Reporting
We deliver a prioritized finding report, custom OPA or Sentinel policies for your critical enforcement rules, and a phased integration roadmap to progressively harden your IaC pipeline security controls.
End-to-End IaC Security Coverage
From Terraform scanning and CloudFormation review through pipeline gates, OPA policies, state file security, and drift detection.
Terraform Scanning
Deep scanning of Terraform HCL and Terragrunt configurations — including module references, variable interpolation, and conditional expressions that basic scanners miss.
CloudFormation Review
Security review of CloudFormation stacks and nested templates — identifying overly permissive IAM roles, unencrypted storage resources, and open security group rules.
Pipeline Security Gates
Design and implementation of IaC security gates in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps — blocking deployments that fail security policy checks.
Policy-as-Code (OPA)
Custom OPA Rego policies and Sentinel rules that encode your organization's security requirements — enforced as hard guardrails in both your CI/CD pipeline and Terraform Cloud.
State File Security
Reviewing Terraform backend configurations for encryption, access control, and secret exposure — ensuring state files are protected as the sensitive artifacts they are.
Drift Reporting
Automated drift detection between your IaC-defined state and actual cloud resources — identifying manual changes, orphaned resources, and out-of-band modifications.
IaC Security That Works in Your Pipeline
We don't just scan your templates and hand you a list. We build the security gates, write the policies, and integrate with your existing CI/CD workflow so security becomes automatic.
Multi-Tool Approach
We run Checkov, tfsec, and Terrascan — not a single scanner — and cross-validate findings across all engines to maximize coverage and reduce false positive volumes.
CI/CD Native
Our IaC security gates are designed for the pipeline tools your team already uses — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps — with ready-to-adopt workflow configuration files.
Custom Policy Authoring
We author custom OPA Rego and Sentinel policies specific to your environment's risk profile — not just enabling default rule sets.
Developer-Friendly Output
Our integration produces inline PR annotations with specific line-level finding details and remediation suggestions — so developers fix issues before merging, not after deploying.
IaC Security Tools We Use
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about IaC security scanning and Policy-as-Code
Catch Misconfigurations Before They Deploy
Security at the code level is the most efficient place to prevent cloud misconfigurations. Let us build the IaC security gates and policies that make secure-by-default the path of least resistance for your engineering teams.
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