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Infrastructure as Code Security

Catch misconfigurations in Terraform, Kubernetes manifests and cloud templates before deploy.

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How it differs Scans Terraform, Kubernetes manifests and other infrastructure definitions before they are applied. Scanning the built images is container security.

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An open-source scanner from Checkmarx that parses many infrastructure formats into a common model and evaluates Rego queries against it.

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An open-source scanner from Checkmarx that parses many infrastructure formats into a common model and evaluates Rego queries against it.

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