Catching AWS Misconfigurations Before They Ship: IaC Security Scanning

Every misconfiguration a CSPM tool finds in a live AWS account started somewhere: usually a Terraform module or a CloudFormation template that granted broader access than it needed, skipped encryption by default, or left a resource publicly reachable. By the time it's live, fixing it means a change, a review, a deploy, and a window where the exposure was real. Catching the same issue in the pull request, before it ever reaches an account, removes that window entirely.

That's the shift-left argument for Infrastructure as Code scanning, and it's not a replacement for live posture scanning, it's the earlier checkpoint in the same pipeline. A team that only scans live accounts finds problems after they're exploitable. A team that only scans IaC misses the drift that happens outside of code, a console change, a manual fix that didn't make it back into the repo, an old resource that predates the current IaC setup. Real coverage needs both, checked against the same rule set, so a misconfiguration means the same thing whether it's caught in a PR or in a running account.

KloudSec scans Terraform and CloudFormation on every pull request, using the same underlying check catalog as its live account scanning, so a team isn't maintaining two different definitions of "misconfigured." Findings show up where developers already work, in the PR, with the same copy-paste remediation approach used everywhere else in the platform.