implementing-infrastructure-as-code-security-scanning

Implements automated security scanning for Infrastructure as Code using Checkov, tfsec, and KICS to detect misconfigurations in Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm charts, plus policy-based governance and CI/CD integration. Use when validating cloud infrastructure before deployment or blocking insecure changes (public S3 buckets, open security groups) in pull requests.