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ScoutSuite

Multi-cloud security auditing tool

NCC Group's multi-cloud auditing tool that collects configuration data through cloud APIs and highlights risk areas in an offline HTML report.

Open sourceGPL-2.0-only
Alternative toWizPrisma Cloud
Homepage of ScoutSuite
Official repository page, captured by ThreatWire.

What ScoutSuite does

ScoutSuite queries the APIs of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud with read-only credentials, gathers configuration data and runs rules over it. The result is a self-contained HTML report that lets an auditor browse resources and flagged findings without further API calls.

It was created by NCC Group for point-in-time cloud security reviews. Check the repository activity before relying on it for newer cloud services.

Key features

  • Support for AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba and Oracle Cloud
  • Read-only, API-based collection
  • Offline HTML report
  • Customisable rule sets
  • Exceptions to suppress accepted findings

Licence

GPL-2.0-only · GNU GPL v2 · Open source

Checked by ThreatWire against the repository's licence file on 2026-10-20. GitHub detects: GPL-2.0.

Security of ScoutSuite itself

No published advisory found for ScoutSuite in GitHub repository advisories. That does not mean the tool has no vulnerabilities.

Sources: GitHub repository advisories · checked 2026-10-20.

Categories and tags

Cloud and IaC security#cspm#aws#azure#gcp#audit#cloud#security#auditing

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