{"id":47535,"date":"2022-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:85aa22e5-bdc3-1edd-bb7c-a049cdaa444f"},"modified":"2022-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"top-5-infrastructure-as-code-security-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/top-5-infrastructure-as-code-security-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Infrastructure as Code Security Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/content\/dam\/trendmicro\/global\/en\/devops\/thumbnails\/22\/top-5-infrastructure-tn.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/content\/dam\/trendmicro\/global\/en\/devops\/thumbnails\/22\/top-5-infrastructure-tn.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Infrastructure as code (IaC), an essential component of contemporary software, enables developers to spin up software infrastructure while offering systems the ability to grow in a flexible and on-demand manner. Tools that make these configurations based on a programmatic method fall under the category of IaC, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">AWS CloudFormation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Azure Resource Manager<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Helm Charts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Progress Chef<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Puppet<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Red Hat Ansible<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Terraform<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IaC has altered the process of deploying environments for online services and applications. Rather than managing physical system configurations, developers can instead use scripts written in code to spin up infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>While this simplicity raises concerns about dependability and security, with the latter being more significant, it\u2019s vital to recognize and address the top five challenges of IaC.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body-subhead-title\">1. IaC template configuration and image vulnerabilities<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Developers include base images in IaC templates to provision infrastructure. These models become prone to security flaws when developers fail to use base images from trusted registries. This increases the likelihood of adding vulnerabilities to a project, ostensibly growing the cost of remediation. In addition, container images add to these challenges, making it difficult to differentiate between application and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Security teams often hardcode sensitive information via secret keys, access codes, and IP addresses in IaC templates. Data should instead be stored in services that provide the required information upon creating the infrastructure plan, including AWS Secrets Manager and Microsoft Azure Key Vault.<\/p>\n<p>When initiating an IaC plan, developers using Terraform generate state files should store these in a remote state location, such as Amazon S3 with proper permissions, instead of pushing to version control.<\/p>\n<p>Before using an IaC template, catch syntax errors by validating it with the current infrastructure deployment or an infrastructure tool, while performing sanity and security checks after the deployment. Developers can mitigate this risk by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Performing a vulnerability assessment of the images listed in IaC files<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Detecting vulnerabilities early in the development life cycle<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Running IaC scans on IaC configuration files for known vulnerabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Avoid hardcoding sensitive information in IaC templates and version control software<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"body-subhead-title\">2. Configuration drift<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When active in the IaC environment, configuration drift often introduces security risks. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Human input<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Poor configuration<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Applications undergoing unintended changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Entering manual edits into a cloud terminal while treating these as code<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While developers can scan for the environment using automated tools, when configuration changes are made directly in the production environment, the immutability of cloud infrastructure is broken. As bypassing pre-deployment testing increases the risk of human error, teams should avoid manually editing infrastructure after deployment while updating or remediating any infrastructure through code.<\/p>\n<p>Mitigating configuration drift relies on maintaining the immutability of the infrastructure. This can be achieved by recognizing configuration drifts between your environments, in addition to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Increasing the cloud resource coverage of your coded infrastructure across cloud environments<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Using a security tool to scan IaC scripts during development<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Constructing pipelines to quickly identify misconfigurations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Using IaC tools to identify infrastructure synchronization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Using an open-source drift detection tool to identify drift issues in production<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Building recurring jobs to alert developers to configuration changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Regularly updating configurations in the environment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"body-subhead-title\">3. Access management and failure to enforce the principle of least privilege<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although developers often require privileged access to specific systems, this creates a risk of unnecessary entry into mission-critical systems. The most common hazard stems from cloud administrators providing users with extensive permissions when they only require a subset of those permissions to complete tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of \u201cleast privilege\u201d refers to granting restricting user or developer accounts permission to only the data required for their jobs, or continuously evaluating levels of access across accounts and \u201ctrimming\u201d unnecessary privileges. Implementing the principle of least privilege (PoLP) limits developers and users from accessing sensitive data or materials, reducing the chance of introducing security risks into IaC.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud administrators generally enforce access management using IAM (identity access management). This assists companies in implementing the concept of \u201cleast privilege\u201d while ensuring that developers and users only use the required services to complete their tasks.<\/p>\n<p>It is also recommended to secure sensitive data by using storage options like, Azure Key Vault, that can classify data as \u201csensitive\u201d at the point of creation. And as time goes on, it\u2019s good practice to remove redundant data from codebases.<\/p>\n<p>Because threat actors often target inactive accounts, it is important to regularly identify and delete all inactive accounts when implementing the PoLP.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body-subhead-title\">4. Secrets management<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Credentials are a recurring need when creating and managing infrastructures, enabling services to communicate adeptly. It\u2019s important for these to share the authentication and permissions granted in the service context.<\/p>\n<p>As a service attempting to connect to another service (an application trying to connect to a database, for example), the connection is authenticated and read access is granted. These services often contain sensitive information such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Passwords<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">SSH keys<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">API tokens<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Database user IDs and passwords<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Certificates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Access and secret keys<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">RSA key pairs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Encryption keys<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As it\u2019s important to keep these infrastructure secrets in a secure place, IaC necessitates a robust secret management protocol. This ensures sensitive data is protected and threat actors cannot compromise secrets.<\/p>\n<p>While this can be managed by employing a clearly defined central policy\u2014helping you identify and determine which privileges your processes or applications requires\u2014other solutions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Failing to hardcode secrets into scripts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Restricting the visibility of secrets to the applications that own them<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Transmitting secrets through encrypted channels such as TLS 2.0 or HTTPS<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"body-subhead-title\">5. Ghost resources<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Failing to tag assets during IaC operations can result in \u201cghost\u201d resources. These untagged assets are challenging to detect and visualize and is difficult for developers to observe within the cloud. In addition, the observability of these resources may not be equivalent to the rest of the system. They consume resources, create potential attack vectors, and affect posture\u2014potentially causing a drift.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;ghost&#8221; resources can increase billing, make maintenance difficult, and reduce reliability. In addition, these untagged resources can as gateways to security breaches since they represent a risky attack surface. It is imperative to tag and monitor untagged resources to mitigate these risks.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body-subhead-title\">Conclusion<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the competence of IaC comes the obligation to manage security concerns. Failing to follow best practices introduces security risks to infrastructures. Insecure IaC creates cloud environments that could result in compliance violations and cloud data breaches.<\/p>\n<p>When setting up your company&#8217;s infrastructure using IaC, following these key practices can shrink your digital attack surface and mitigate cyber risk across your organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Limit the number of people with administrative access using IAM<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Use VPN and SSL encryption to secure data communications<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Automatically update pipelines whenever you make new changes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Analyze new commits for cloud deployment modifications<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"rte-red-bullet\">Integrate regular security checks into IaC development workflows<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_us\/devops\/22\/g\/infrastructure-as-code-iac-security.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to counteract the top five challenges of IaC and discover how these obstacles pose a threat to security and gain valuable insight in how to mitigate these risks. 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