Low Terraform Vulnerabilities

Overview

The Low Terraform Vulnerabilities widget displays the count of low-severity vulnerabilities in your Terraform configurations. While these issues pose minimal immediate risk, they represent opportunities for security improvements and best practice adoption.

Value for IT and Security Engineers

Security Perspective

• Best Practices: Low-severity findings often highlight opportunities to align with security best practices.

• Security Maturity: Addressing low-severity issues demonstrates commitment to comprehensive security.

• Proactive Security: Helps prevent the escalation of minor security issues into larger concerns.

Operational Perspective

• Continuous Improvement: Provides opportunities for incremental security improvements.

• Knowledge Sharing: Identifies areas where security awareness can be enhanced.

• Code Quality: Often relates to code quality and infrastructure design improvements.

Use Case Scenarios

• Code Reviews: Include low-severity security checks in regular code reviews.

• Technical Debt: Address low-severity issues as part of technical debt reduction.

• Team Training: Use examples of low-severity issues for team security training.

Common Low Vulnerabilities

1. Missing optional security features

2. Inconsistent naming conventions

3. Outdated configuration patterns

4. Minor documentation issues

5. Non-standard resource configurations

Technical Details

• Widget Type: StatsType

• Data Source: SL-Terraform-Low-Vulnerabilities-Count

• Refresh Rate: Real-time