SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced the release of Yor, an open-source tool that automatically tags cloud resources within infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Serverless Framework YAML. Yor automates the tedious work of manually tagging cloud resources, helps security teams trace security misconfigurations from code to cloud, and enables highly effective GitOps across all major cloud providers.

“Effective infrastructure tagging is critical to tracking cost allocation, access control, operations, and of course security in the cloud,” said Barak Schoster, chief architect at Palo Alto Networks. “To date, this has been an all-too-manual process for developers, with each cloud provider and organization having different standards and naming conventions. By automating standardized tagging, Yor provides visibility and traceability from IaC configuration to cloud resources in production.”

Organizations can run Yor across all infrastructure resources to retroactively assign ownership and other meaningful tags based on IaC and git history data. Yor can also be built into the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) lifecycle for improved traceability as infrastructure is modified and created. Having consistent tagging will make it simple to trace any misconfigurations back to the original code owners and editors, reducing the time to patch.

The Cloud Security Alliance noted in its recent report The State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges, and Incidents that misconfigurations were among the leading causes of breaches and outages as public cloud adoption doubled over the past two years. If a security team identifies a misconfiguration, having the tags for the developer owner simplifies triaging, so the ticket can be automatically assigned to the right developer. Yor’s use cases also extend beyond security by making it easier to tag resources to allocate costs from a finance and budgeting perspective.

“DevSecOps is about breaking down silos and improving productivity,” said Ismail Yenigul,open-source contributor and DevSecOps expert. “Imagine there is a SEV0 security incident — the last thing you want to do is spend hours identifying what caused a misconfiguration or track down the developer who wrote or modified the infrastructure code that is managed in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Serverless. Yor makes it possible to get answers to those questions immediately, for much more effective collaboration and faster mean time to resolution of incidents.”

Yor was built by Bridgecrew, the team behind the popular open-source IaC scanner Checkov which has been downloaded over 2 million times by developers. Bridgecrew was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in March 2021 and together they continue to invest in new and existing open source projects.

Yor is an open-source tool that automatically and consistently tags resources across infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and Serverless Framework). Yor enables version-controlled owner assignment and resource tracing-based git history. It also extends tag enforcement logic by loading external tagging logic into your CI/CD pipeline. For more information, visit www.yor.io.

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Cloud security provider Accurics this week announced a new GitHub application designed to further automate the programmatic enforcement of security policies throughout the software development workflow.

The Accurics platform and the Terrascan tool for detecting compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code (IaC) have both been accessible through GitHub Actions for a while. Terrascan is accessible through the popular Super-Linter action. The Accurics platform is available through the company’s own action.

The new GitHub App adds an option for the automation of that enforcement, explained Accurics developer advocate Jon Jarboe, in a blog post. It provides a library of more than 500 policies aligned with compliance standards, such as the CIS benchmark. New commits and pull requests are automatically scanned for policy violations, and when security risks are found, they are added to the PR and/or repo as issues.
By adding Accurics to code scanning, any GitHub user can automate the elimination of security risks from their infrastructure as code before and after deployment, Jarboe said.

“Given the success of high-velocity DevOps teams, we believe that self-healing infrastructure is the only way to embed security into DevOps without breaking it,” Jarboe added. “Reactive processes that require manual actions simply cannot keep up. The rapid adoption of infrastructure as code provides an excellent opportunity to implement guardrails throughout the development lifecycle, starting in the earliest stages.

The new GitHub Accurics App was part of the GitHub announcement this week for integration with new third-party code scanning tools for IaC and container scanning.

“By expanding our GitHub security ecosystem, developers can use their tools of choice for any of their projects on GitHub, all within the native GitHub experience they love,” said GitHub senior business development manager Jose Palafox, in a blog post. “Our integrations tightly couple the developer workflow with a security review through GitHub Actions and Apps.”

Along with Accurics, GitHub announced integrations with 42Crunch (API Contract Security Audit), Bridgecrew (developer-first platform for streamlining cloud security), Snyk Infrastructure as Code and Snyk Container security platforms, Aqua Security (pure-play cloud native security company), and Anchore (enterprise container security workflow solution).

The Pleasanton, CA-based Accurics focuses on enabling “immutable security for immutable infrastructure, so that organizations can embrace cloud native technologies with confidence.” The company’s namesake solution seamlessly scans IaC for misconfigurations based on common policy frameworks and detects potential breach paths to eliminate risks before cloud infrastructure is provisioned. It then monitors provisioned cloud infrastructure for configuration changes that introduce posture drift, and enables reverting to a secure posture.

“GitHub is a luminary in the software development world,” Jarboe said, “and we’re excited to work with them to help deliver to their users the ability to programmatically detect and fix security risks through its new code scanning.”