While open source provides great benefits when building IaC, it also has some drawbacks. When IaC components are made open source for reuse, they are optimized for functionality and ease of use. Unfortunately, in many cases, they are not designed with security in mind.
In our own research, we found that nearly half of open-source Terraform modules contained misconfigurations. Additionally, when scanning Artifact Hub, we found that 71% of the 618 Helm repositories we scanned and 46.5% of the 2,300 Helm charts we scanned contained misconfigurations.
makes it easier for developers to create and modify IaC. But again, speed and efficiency are their top priorities. In a perfect world, a developer could just grab any old Helm chart from Artifact Hub or GitHub and immediately know if it is secure. There should be clear disclaimers or guidelines on what to do to secure a module if it is not secure.
IaC scanning tools were designed with this in mind. Most scanning typically happens locally, before a commit. To unlock the real power of automation, you can build automated checks and guards right into your build pipeline, which brings us to the next point.
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The secret to automating security is to use the tools and processes you already have. If you use DevOps or agile methodologies, you are likely on the right track to embedding security into your daily workflows and automating as much as possible.
A mature security automation strategy should be embedded throughout the software development lifecycle, but integrating guardrails into at least one control point is a great start.
Perhaps the easiest place to implement automation across an organization or team is in your continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Adding automated checks to the pipeline that all of your developers push code through is the best way to ensure that only well-written code makes it into your repository.