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prowler — Perform security best practices assessments, audits, and compliance checks across AWS, Azure, Google

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Problem

How to use the prowler command: Perform security best practices assessments, audits, and compliance checks across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. See also: prowler-aws, prowler-azure, prowler-gcp, prowler-kubernetes, prowler-m365, prowler-github. More information: <https://docs.prowler.com/user-guide/cli/tutorials/misc>.

Solution

prowler — Perform security best practices assessments, audits, and compliance checks across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. See also: prowler-aws, prowler-azure, prowler-gcp, prowler-kubernetes, prowler-m365, prowler-github. More information: <https://docs.prowler.com/user-guide/cli/tutorials/misc>.

Run an AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes - as provider - audit with default checks:

prowler {{provider}}

Show all available checks for a specific provider:

prowler {{provider}} {{[-l|--list-checks]}}

Show all available services for a specific provider:

prowler {{provider}} --list-services

Generate output in multiple formats, including JSON-ASFF for AWS Security Hub:

prowler {{provider}} --output-modes {{csv,json-asff,html,...}}

Execute in verbose mode:

prowler {{provider}} --verbose

Filter findings by status:

prowler {{provider}} --status {{PASS,FAIL,MANUAL}}

Display help:

prowler --help

Display version:

prowler {{[-v|--version]}}

Code Snippets

Run an AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes - as provider - audit with default checks

prowler {{provider}}

Show all available checks for a specific provider

prowler {{provider}} {{[-l|--list-checks]}}

Show all available services for a specific provider

prowler {{provider}} --list-services

Generate output in multiple formats, including JSON-ASFF for AWS Security Hub

prowler {{provider}} --output-modes {{csv,json-asff,html,...}}

Execute in verbose mode

prowler {{provider}} --verbose

Context

tldr-pages: common/prowler

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