Cloud Security Has No TodoMVC. So We Built One.
✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. In JavaScript, when you want to compare frameworks, you go to TodoMVC. Same app, every framework. You compare React and Vue and Svelte against identical requirements. The differences such as bundle size, rendering approach, state management, verbosity reveal themselves on uniform ground. Cloud security has never had this. Every…
In the realm of cloud security, there exists no unified evaluation standard akin to TodoMVC for JavaScript frameworks. Each vendor presents their own scenarios, often showcasing the most favorable findings, rather than running all tools against identical conditions. This lack of a standardized approach makes it difficult to compare and evaluate cloud security tools, leading to potential confusion when assessing their effectiveness and limitations.
To address this issue, a Terraform-deployed AWS environment has been created, containing 30 documented misconfigurations across eight services, along with five multi-resource attack paths. Each misconfiguration is assigned a unique ID, description, severity rating, and manual verification steps, enabling users to verify the misconfigurations through the AWS console.
The environment can be deployed in approximately 10 minutes and costs around $2 per day to run. An evaluation scorecard is provided, allowing users to mark each tool as FOUND, MISSED, PARTIAL, or N/A for each ground truth item. This scorecard distinguishes between individual findings and compound attack paths, giving users a clear understanding of a tool's overall effectiveness.
The environment includes eight AWS services and targets various issues such as public exposure, encryption gaps, logging deficiencies, identity issues, and network configuration problems. By using this controlled environment to compare different cloud security tools, users can gain a better understanding of their capabilities and limitations, ultimately making more informed decisions in their evaluations.
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