Overview

Sysdig's Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security solution empowers organizations to proactively manage and mitigate cloud configuration risks by integrating security measures directly into the development lifecycle. By embedding security into IaC practices, Sysdig ensures consistent policy enforcement across various environments, including cloud and Kubernetes, facilitating early detection and remediation of misconfigurations before deployment. This approach not only enhances compliance and governance but also streamlines collaboration between development, operations, and security teams, effectively bridging gaps and promoting a unified security posture.

Features and Capabilities

• IaC Manifest Scanner: Conducts comprehensive scans of IaC files such as Terraform, Helm, and YAML to identify misconfigurations. Prioritizes remediation efforts by assessing the potential impact of identified issues, allowing teams to address the most critical vulnerabilities first.
• Compliance Automation and Governance: Enforces compliance and governance policies through policy as code from source to production. Utilizes a shared policy model to bridge gaps between teams, ensuring consistent adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Git Source Control Integration: Maps production deployments back to their IaC source files, facilitating the detection of runtime drift. Automatically generates pull requests with recommended fixes, streamlining the remediation process and maintaining alignment between source code and deployed infrastructure.
• OPA-Based Policies: Applies curated policies leveraging Open Policy Agent (OPA), the open-source standard for policy management across Kubernetes workloads. This ensures flexible and robust policy enforcement tailored to specific organizational needs.
• Risk-Based Prioritization: Evaluates security fixes based on application context, requirements, and dependencies, enabling teams to focus on addressing vulnerabilities that pose the highest risk to the organization.
• Automated Drift Remediation: Detects configuration drifts in runtime environments and automatically remediates them at the source by generating pull requests with suggested fixes, ensuring that infrastructure remains consistent with defined security policies.
• Integration with CI/CD Pipelines: Seamlessly integrates with existing CI/CD workflows, allowing for continuous scanning and enforcement of security policies throughout the development and deployment processes.
• Cross-Environment Consistency: Ensures uniform application of security policies across multiple IaC, cloud, and Kubernetes environments, reducing the risk of misconfigurations and enhancing overall security posture.
• Enhanced Collaboration: Facilitates improved communication and collaboration between development, operations, and security teams by providing a unified view of security requirements and compliance status, fostering a culture of shared responsibility for security.