Our security CLI produced findings engineers couldn't triage without hours of research. We applied Andreas Zeller's defect/infection/failure chain from debugging theory β and triage time collapsed.
50 findings. 4 hours of triage.
Our Go CLI scans cloud configurations and reports security misconfigurations. A typical scan produces 50+ findings. Each finding says what control fired, which asset, and what severity.
Finding: CTL.IAM.ESCALATION.001 Asset: arn:aws:iam::123456:role/DeployerRole Severity: high Remediation: Restrict iam:PassRole permissions
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An engineer reads this and asks three questions:
What is wrong? "Escalation" β but what specifically about this role is the problem?
Why does it matter? Is this a theoretical risk or an active exposure?
What happens if I ignore it? Account compromise? Data leak? Compliance finding?
The finding answers none of these.β¦