The KICS means Keeping Iinfrastructure Code Secure, is open source and is essential for any project coming from the cloud.
It finds vulnerabilities and a wide variety of security issues as well as incorrect ones configurations of infrastructure at an early stage in the code development cycle. Created by Checkmarx.
What makes KICS really powerful and popular is its built-in scalability. You can integrate in KICS a series of add-ons of your choice, depending on the project you are working on.
KICS architecture
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Execution Flow
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Information on installing and using the program, you will find here.
