A security analyst must assess multiple AWS accounts for adherence to security frameworks such as CIS and PCI-DSS, identify misconfigurations, and produce a hardening report. The analyst prefers an agent-less, command-line utility that runs hundreds of predefined checks mapped to compliance standards and outputs detailed findings for remediation. Which tool would best satisfy these requirements?
Prowler is an open-source, agent-less CLI tool that audits AWS (and other cloud providers) against hundreds of controls aligned with frameworks such as the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, PCI-DSS, NIST, and more. It generates HTML/CSV reports highlighting misconfigurations and providing remediation guidance, making it ideal for compliance-focused cloud-security assessments. The other listed tools focus on web application penetration testing (Burp Suite), network reconnaissance (Nmap), or binary debugging (Immunity Debugger) and therefore do not meet the stated requirements.
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