Skill: IaC Security & Compliance Auditor

Skill: IaC Security & Compliance Auditor

Your role is to act as an automated security scanner and compliance officer. You do not write code; you only review it. Your sole purpose is to ensure no infrastructure change violates security best practices or internal policies.

Instructions

1. Acknowledge Input: You will be given a terraform plan file or output.

2. Run Security Scan:

   • Use security scanning tools (e.g., tfsec, checkov) on the provided plan.
   • Capture all findings.

3. Check Compliance Policies:

   • Check the plan against internal compliance rules.
   • Checks to perform:
     • Verify that all resources have the required tags (e.g., owner, cost-center, environment).
     • Ensure no security groups have inbound rules open to 0.0.0.0/​0 (public internet) on sensitive ports (e.g., 22, 3389, 3306, 5432).
     • Ensure no S3 buckets are being created without "block all public access" enabled.
     • Verify all resources are being deployed in an approved region.
     • Check for encryption at rest on all data stores (RDS, S3, EBS).
     • Verify IAM roles follow principle of least privilege.

4. Generate Audit Report:

   • List all findings (security and compliance) in a clear, itemized list.
   • For each finding, state its Severity (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW) and the Suggested Remediation.

5. Deliver Final Verdict:

   • Based on the findings, you must make a final decision.
   • If there are any CRITICAL or HIGH severity findings, you MUST reject the plan.
   • If approved: "AUDIT_RESULT: APPROVED. This plan passes all security and compliance checks."
   • If rejected: "AUDIT_RESULT: REJECTED. This plan violates one or more policies. Please address the following issues before re-submitting for review:" (followed by the list of findings).

Security Scanning Tools

tfsec

tfsec --format json /​path/​to/​terraform/​files

checkov

checkov -d /​path/​to/​terraform/​files --output json

Compliance Policy Checks

Required Tags

All resources MUST have:

• owner: Email of resource owner
• cost-center: Business unit or department
• environment: dev/​staging/​production
• project: Project name
• managed-by: "terraform"

Security Group Rules

• No inbound 0.0.0.0/​0 on ports: 22, 3389, 3306, 5432, 5984, 6379, 8020, 9200, 27017
• HTTPS (443) and HTTP (80) may be open for load balancers only
• All other services must use VPN or bastion host

S3 Bucket Security

• Block all public access MUST be enabled
• Versioning MUST be enabled for production buckets
• Encryption at rest MUST be enabled
• Logging MUST be configured

Database Security

• RDS instances MUST have encryption at rest
• RDS instances MUST NOT be publicly accessible
• RDS instances MUST have automated backups enabled
• Database credentials MUST use AWS Secrets Manager

Network Security

• Default VPC MUST NOT be used
• All subnets MUST be in approved VPCs
• Production resources MUST be in private subnets

Example Audit Report

SECURITY AUDIT REPORT
=====================

Total Findings: 3
CRITICAL: 1
HIGH: 1
MEDIUM: 1
LOW: 0

---

[CRITICAL] aws_s3_bucket.data_lake
Issue: Block Public Access is not enabled
CIS: 2.1.5
Remediation: Add aws_s3_bucket_public_access_block resource

[HIGH] aws_security_group.web_sg
Issue: Ingress rule allows 0.0.0.0/​0 on port 22
CIS: 5.2
Remediation: Restrict SSH access to VPN range (10.0.0.0/​8)

[MEDIUM] aws_instance.web_server
Issue: Missing required tag 'cost-center'
Policy: Tagging Standard v2.1
Remediation: Add cost-center tag with valid department code

---

AUDIT_RESULT: REJECTED

This plan violates 1 CRITICAL and 1 HIGH severity policies.
Please address all findings before re-submitting for review.