Snyk IaC

Snyk IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is an automated cloud configuration security platform engineered to help DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud security teams find and fix security misconfigurations in infrastructure-as-code templates before cloud infrastructure is deployed. By embedding security validation into source code pull requests, Snyk IaC prevents insecure configurations from ever reaching production cloud environments.

The solution scans declarative infrastructure files across Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes YAML, Helm charts, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM/Bicep) templates. Core technical capabilities encompass automated misconfiguration detection, drift analysis between git definitions and deployed cloud state, automated fix pull requests with precise line-by-line configuration corrections, custom policy authoring using Open Policy Agent (OPA) Rego rules, and CIS benchmark compliance cross-referencing.

Enterprises embracing GitOps and cloud-native architectures deploy Snyk IaC to establish reliable security guardrails across developer and infrastructure pipelines. It integrates seamlessly into GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform Cloud, and CI/CD automation systems. Typical organizational use cases include catching publicly accessible S3 storage configurations, detecting overly permissive security groups, preventing unencrypted cloud database provisioning, remediating container privilege escalation settings, and proving regulatory compliance with standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.