We are excited to announce the addition of a new provider in our open-source, multi-cloud auditing tool ScoutSuite (on GitHub)!
In April, we received a remarkable pull request from Asif Wani, Product Security Lead at DigitalOcean APAC, to integrate DigitalOcean services into ScoutSuite. After reviewing the request, NCC Group not only accepted his proposal, but also expanded it with new rules and services.
This new feature is currently included in the last version 5.14.0, adding DigitalOcean as a new cloud provider with twenty-eight new rules based in the hardening features provided by DigitalOcean.
The most significant changes are:
Check out the Github page and the Wiki documentation for more information about ScoutSuite.
We would like to express our gratitude to all our contributors:
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