ScoutSuite

ScoutSuite is a multi-cloud security audit and configuration tool designed to identify security risks and misconfigurations across cloud environments. It functions as a security posture manager and compliance auditor, gathering resource metadata from cloud APIs to evaluate infrastructure against security benchmarks.

The tool provides auditing capabilities for AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Kubernetes clusters and control planes. It distinguishes itself by decoupling data collection from analysis, allowing users to cache cloud configurations locally for offline auditing and iterative rule testing without repeated API calls.

The system employs a JSON-based rule engine that supports custom security rule definitions, parameterized checks, and the suppression of specific findings. It manages authentication through credential files, managed identities, and temporary role assumptions, while generating visual security posture assessments via HTML reports and JSON exports.

The tool can be executed within a pre-configured container environment containing all necessary dependencies.

Features

Cloud Auditing Tools - Provides a multi-cloud auditing tool to assess infrastructure configurations against security best practices.

Cloud Compliance Auditors - Automates the evaluation of cloud infrastructure against industry-standard regulatory frameworks and security benchmarks.

Configuration Logic Evaluators - Evaluates resource configurations using nested logical operators and dynamic macros to detect security risks.

Offline Configuration Analysis - Evaluates cloud resource settings offline using cached data to test security rules without repeated API calls.

Control Plane Auditing - Scans Kubernetes control planes and master nodes across cloud providers to identify posture risks.

GCP Configuration Audits - Analyzes Google Cloud configurations across organizations and projects to identify security risks.

Cloud Provider Abstraction Layers - Employs unified interfaces to standardize the fetching of configuration data across multiple cloud service providers.

Cloud Security Posture Management - Gathers cloud configuration data to track and visualize the security posture of cloud accounts.

JSON-Based Rule Engines - Uses a JSON-based rule engine to evaluate cloud resource configurations against security benchmarks.

DigitalOcean Configuration Audits - Gathers configuration data from DigitalOcean APIs to perform security posture assessments.

AWS - Gathers security posture data from AWS APIs to identify risk areas.

Kubernetes Posture Scanning - Scans Kubernetes clusters and control planes across multiple cloud providers to identify security risks.

Security Rule Development - Allows the creation of tailored security checks to identify environment-specific risks.

HTML Analysis Reports - Generates structured HTML reports for visual inspection of cloud security posture and analysis results.

Local State Caches - Persists downloaded cloud configurations locally to allow iterative rule testing without repeating API calls.

Rule Parameterization - Supports using arguments within rule definitions to reuse a single security check across different values.

Cloud Provider Integrations - Enables the implementation of custom authentication strategies and data facades to integrate additional cloud platforms.

Multi-Account Scanning - Allows scanning a specific list of cloud subscriptions or all accessible accounts in one run.

Cloud Credential Management - Supports authenticating to cloud APIs using environment variables or credential files.

Custom Compliance Rulesets - Executes specific security findings based on industry-standard benchmarks using custom rulesets.

Temporary Security Tokens - Manages temporary security token exchanges and role assumptions to access multiple cloud accounts.

Identity Authentication - Provides support for connecting to cloud environments via CLI sessions, managed identities, and browser-based MFA.

AWS Role Assumption - Allows requesting temporary security credentials using role identifiers to perform audits in specific security contexts.

Security Finding Management - Allows marking specific resources as exceptions to security rules to suppress them from reports.

Security Report Generation - Generates security scan findings as structured HTML reports and JSON exports for stakeholders.

Offline Configuration Analysis - Performs security audits against downloaded configuration data to test rule changes without live API calls.

Collection and Analysis Decoupling - Implements a decoupled architecture that separates cloud data collection from security analysis to enable offline auditing.

Rule Evaluators - Allows passing external arguments and resolving resource IDs at runtime for flexible rule evaluation across environments.

Cloud Platform Security - Multi-cloud security auditing for posture assessment.

Cloud Security - Multi-cloud security scanning tool.

Cloud Infrastructure Security - Multi-cloud security auditing tool for infrastructure assessment.

Security Assessment Tools - Multi-cloud security auditing tool for infrastructure assessment.

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