Continuous Terraform security and compliance
Enforce security and compliance policies in your Terraform modules to prevent misconfigured cloud resources from being deployed.
Why
Terraform security 101
Infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform make it easy to scale infrastructure quickly and consistently across providers and cloud environments. It also poses new risks as additional layers of configuration are introduced, as well as opportunities to shift cloud security left.
Terraform security risks
Because Terraform modules are built with functionality and performance in mind, security is often overlooked. Having missing or misconfigured variables in IaC modules, you may be inadvertently deploying vulnerable cloud resources.
Codified security opportunity
Terraform enables you to embed cloud security earlier and leverage automation and code to secure it. By scanning your Terraform modules earlier in the development lifecycle you can actually prevent misconfigurations from being deployed.
How it works
Best practices for Terraform security
Terraform code static analysis
Automated Terraform scanning is essential to enforcing policies that are necessary for a solid cloud security posture.
Securing Terraform continuously
Embed Terraform scanning into your automated build pipeline to ensure new changes don’t introduce cloud security issues.
Actionable Terraform policies
For Terraform security scanning to provide actionable feedback, fixes should be delivered into your development lifecycle as code.
Bridgecrew is designed to enforce cloud security policies as early as possible and as part of every Terraform code review.
- Integrate directly with your Terraform repositories to instantly start scanning for security issues.
- Keep your Terraform modules compliant with continuous scanning as part of your CI/CD pipelines.
- Fix issues with a single click by opening a pull request that includes the code to address policies
Security where code happens
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Terraform security resources
Bridgecrew for Terraform Tutorial
Learn how to get started with Bridgecrew for Terraform by integrating with GitHub and embedding continuous Terraform scanning into your workflow.
State of Terraform Security
In our recent research report, we dug into the open source Terraform ecosystem and found that nearly 1 in 2 modules violates a security policy or best practice.
Terraform security training tool
To help engineers learn how to spot Terraform misconfigurations and fix Terraform security issues, we built TerraGoat, a vulnerable-by-design training tool.