Cyber security

tfsec – Migrating To Trivy For Enhanced Infrastructure As Code Security

As part of our goal to provide a comprehensive open source security solution for all, we have been consolidating all of our scanning-related efforts in one place, and that is Trivy.

Over the past year, tfsec has laid the foundations to Trivy’s IaC & misconfigurations scanning capabilities, including Terraform scanning, which has been natively supported in Trivy for a long time now.

Going forward we want to encourage the tfsec community to transition over to Trivy. Moving to Trivy gives you the same excellent Terraform scanning engine, with some extra benefits:

  1. Access to more languages and features in the same tool.
  2. Access to more integrations with tools and services through the rich ecosystem around Trivy.
  3. Commercially supported by Aqua as well as by a the passionate Trivy community. tfsec will continue to remain available for the time being, although our engineering attention will be directed at Trivy going forward.

tfsec To Trivy Migration Guide

For further information on how Trivy compares to tfsec and moving from tfsec to Trivy, do have a look at the migration guide.

Overview

tfsec uses static analysis of your terraform code to spot potential misconfigurations.

Features

  • ☁️ Checks for misconfigurations across all major (and some minor) cloud providers
  • ⛔ Hundreds of built-in rules
  • 🪆 Scans modules (local and remote)
  • ➕ Evaluates HCL expressions as well as literal values
  • ↪️ Evaluates Terraform functions e.g. concat()
  • 🔗 Evaluates relationships between Terraform resources
  • 🧰 Compatible with the Terraform CDK
  • 🙅 Applies (and embellishes) user-defined Rego policies
  • 📃 Supports multiple output formats: lovely (default), JSON, SARIF, CSV, CheckStyle, JUnit, text, Gif.
  • 🛠️ Configurable (via CLI flags and/or config file)
  • ⚡ Very fast, capable of quickly scanning huge repositories
  • 🔌 Plugins for popular IDEs available (JetBrains, VSCode and Vim)
  • 🏡 Community-driven – come and chat with us on Slack!

For more information click here.

Varshini

Varshini is a Cyber Security expert in Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, and Research. Passionate about staying ahead of emerging Threats and Technologies.

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