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Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.

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KICS - Keep Infrastructure as Code Secure

KICS - Keep Infrastructure as Code Secure


Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.

KICS stands for Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure, it is open source and is a must-have for any cloud native project.

Supported Platforms

Terraform    Kubernetes    Docker   

CloudFormation    Ansible    Helm   

OpenAPI    gRPC    Azure Resource Manager    Google Deployment Manager   

Cloud Deployment Kit    SAM    Docker Compose    Knative   

Crossplane    Pulumi    ServerlessFW   

Azure BluePrints   

Support of other solutions and additional cloud providers are on the roadmap.

Getting Started

Setting up and using KICS is super-easy.

Interested in more advanced stuff?

  • Deep dive into KICS queries.
  • Understand how to integrate KICS in your favourite CI/CD pipelines.

See KICS documentation for more details and topics.

How it Works

What makes KICS really powerful and popular is its built-in extensibility. This extensibility is achieved by:

  • Fully customizable and adjustable heuristics rules, called queries. These can be easily edited, extended and added.
  • Robust but yet simple architecture, which allows quick addition of support for new Infrastructure as Code solutions.

Contribution

KICS is a true community project. It's built as an open source from day one, and anyone can find his own way to contribute to the project. Check out how, within just minutes, you can start making a difference, by sharing your expertise with a community of thousands of security experts and software developers.

You're welcome to join our monthly community meetings, talk with us on GitHub discussions or contact KICS core team at kics@checkmarx.com.

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Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure!


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