KICS
Infrastructure as Code
Open source IaC security scanner from Checkmarx finding security vulnerabilities and compliance issues in Terraform, Ansible, and more.
Free planCode Security ScanningKubernetes Security
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Prowler
Cloud Security Posture Management
Open source security tool for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes performing security assessments and compliance checks.
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ARMO
Cloud-Native Application Protection
Kubernetes security platform built on open-source Kubescape providing posture management, vulnerability scanning, and runtime protection for K8s clusters.
Automated compliance framework supportKubernetes rbac visualization and analysis - 4Kubernetes Security, Cloud Workload Protection
Tetragon
Kubernetes Security
Cilium's eBPF-based security observability and runtime enforcement platform for Kubernetes clusters.
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Polaris
Kubernetes Security
Open source tool from Fairwinds validating Kubernetes resource configurations against best practices and policies.
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Trivy
Container Security
Trivy by Aqua Security is an open-source comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers, filesystems, Git repositories, and Kubernetes configurations.
Free planCode Security ScanningKubernetes Security - 7Kubernetes Security, Cloud Security Posture Management
Runecast
Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud security platform providing proactive vulnerability assessment, compliance auditing, and best practice analysis for VMware, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
Free trialCloud Workload ProtectionKubernetes Security - 8Kubernetes Security
Carvel
Kubernetes Security
VMware open-source toolset of single-purpose composable Kubernetes tools including ytt, kapp, and kbld.
Yaml configuration templating and overlayContainer image building and reference managementApplication and configuration bundling via container registries - 9Kubernetes Security
Cilium
Container Networking
Cilium is an open-source eBPF-based networking, observability, and security platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
Ebpf based networking and securityNetwork policy enforcement - 10Kubernetes Security
Inspektor
Monitoring & Observability
Microsoft Azure's open-source tool collection using eBPF to debug and observe Kubernetes clusters.
Free planKubernetes SecurityApplication Performance Monitoring
