Secure Cloud

Check whether a cloud account is configured securely, by running cnspec against it. You ask the outcome — "is this AWS account / Azure subscription / GCP project hardened?" — and this skill picks the right scan and reads the result; cnspec carries the policies.

When to use

• Auditing an AWS account, Azure subscription, GCP project, or Kubernetes cluster against CIS foundations / Mondoo cloud security policies.
• Finding IAM, network (security groups / firewall), public-storage, encryption, and logging misconfigurations across a cloud environment.

This is live posture (an account you can connect to). For the Terraform/CloudFormation an agent writes before deploy, use secure-pipeline (it policy-checks the IaC with cnspec).

What cnspec checks

• AWS — mondoo-aws-security · Azure — mondoo-azure-security · GCP — mondoo-gcp-security
• Kubernetes — mondoo-kubernetes-security, mondoo-kubernetes-best-practices
• Also — mondoo-alibaba-security, mondoo-cloudflare-security, mondoo-clickhousecloud-security

Run a scan

cnspec scan aws    -o sarif    # uses your AWS credentials / profile
cnspec scan azure  -o sarif    # uses your Azure login
cnspec scan gcp    -o sarif    # uses your gcloud credentials
cnspec scan k8s    -o sarif    # current kube context

• Logged in to Mondoo Platform, cnspec runs the assigned policies automatically; otherwise add --incognito and -f <bundle> to run a specific bundle locally.
• Each provider authenticates with that cloud's standard credentials — see the cnspec docs for per-provider connection options.
• -o sarif emits findings for a CI gate; cnspec exits non-zero on failures.

Reference, don't duplicate

cnspec owns the policies and their authoring (see the cnspec repo for the mql / policy-graph skills). This skill invokes cnspec and interprets results.

Compliance

Cloud policies map to CIS benchmarks, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIST, HIPAA, and more — a scan doubles as a compliance report; filter or report by the framework you need.

Part of the secure-your-stack toolkit

secure-cloud is the cloud account pillar of posture, alongside secure-os (hosts & devices), secure-saas (SaaS & identity), and secure-ai-services (AI). The secure development skills secure the code and IaC you deploy into these accounts. Needs cnspec (install) plus credentials for the target cloud.