prowler VS kube-bench

1. Prowler: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler Prowler provides security best practices assessments, audits, incident response readiness, and continuous monitoring for AWS environments.

Which cloud provider?

https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler is easy to get going with, and gives decent results. It's much stronger at AWS than GCP or Azure.

Steampipe can be a little harder to wrap your head around, but scales really well and has broader support: https://hub.steampipe.io/mods?objectives=security

Task Role: Select or create a new role that has the necessary permissions. Ensure this role has the three required Prowler policies and an additional custom policy to put objects into the desired S3 bucket.

Prowler and ScoutSuite are a good start for cloud stuff.

Yes! There are open source cloud security tools! Here are some open source tools out there: steampipe, prowler, cloudquery, and ZeusCloud.

If AWS is in use then i would add prowler to the list - https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler This is the best open source cspm for aws.

More info you can find it at Prowler Github and Prowler Docs

You’re not going to find a shiny enterprise web ui for free but there are tools out there. If you just want to review AWS accounts, you can use prowler https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

2. Kubebench: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench Kubebench is an open-source tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.

However, no matter how well our applications are secured, the security of our entire IT environment ultimately depends on the security of our infrastructure. Therefore, in the lab to follow, we will shift our focus away from Kubernetes workloads and instead explore how we can evaluate and improve upon the security of our Kubernetes clusters with kube-bench, the industry-leading Kubernetes benchmarking solution developed by Aqua.

The official repository can be found here with detailed installation instructions.

curl -L [https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.10/kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.2/kube-bench_0.6.2_linux_amd64.deb) -o kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb

I haven't used Kubernetes for a while, but shouldn't kube-bench (1) be enough? Do you have to check anything manually?

(1) https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench

kube-bench checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. We can deploy kube-bench as a Job that runs daily and consume its report in CI/CD to pass or fail the pipeline based on the level of severity.

kube-bench can be executed as a simple command on the host, as a container on the host using Docker command, or as a job inside Kubernetes Cluster. In case it is run inside a container/pod, it will need access to the PID namespace of the host system. The methods to run kube-bench in AKS, EKS, GKE, On-prem cluster, Openshift and ACK (Alibaba Cloud Container Service For Kubernetes) are different but well documented.

Check this out: kube-bench - CIS Benchmark

Kube-bench, written as a Go application, is deployable as a container. Ready-made job.yaml files make it easy to run Kube-bench inside a Kubernetes cluster or on a managed Kubernetes service, such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or OpenShift. Here's a link to Kube-Bench on Github