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Application & OT Security · Intermediate

Infrastructure as Code Scanning

Static analysis of Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts and similar templates for security misconfigurations before deployment.

Definition

IaC scanners flag issues such as public storage buckets, open security groups, unencrypted volumes, privileged containers and missing logging. Running them in pull requests shifts cloud misconfiguration detection left, and policy as code enforces organizational rules.

Example

A pull request is blocked because a Terraform security group allows SSH from 0.0.0.0/0.

Exam tip

IaC scanning prevents misconfigurations; CSPM detects them after deployment.

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