KICS

KICS (Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure) is an open-source static analysis tool by Checkmarx that scans infrastructure as code files to identify security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and misconfigurations across platforms including Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, ARM Templates, OpenAPI, Pulumi, and Serverless Framework using over 2,400 fully customizable and extensible security queries. The tool integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable automated security testing during development, providing detailed remediation guidance with severity ratings to help development teams detect and fix infrastructure security issues before deployment while supporting multiple output formats for comprehensive reporting and analysis.