CheckPoint shiftleft

Background

The Check Point CloudGuard platform provides cloud native security, with advanced threat prevention for all assets and workloads – in public, private, hybrid or multi-cloud environment – providing unified security to automate security everywhere. As part of the CloudGuard family, Check Point shiftleft brings CloudGuards security abilities to detect and prevent risk in cloud deployments into the CI/CD pipeline. shiftleft provides a single interface for multiple CI/CD security steps, including scanning your Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates for risk, checking your software for known vulnerabilities, and scanning container images for security issues.

Prerequisites

You'll need a CloudGuard account to use shiftleft. If you're organization isn't already using Check Point's Cloud Guard, head over to the Cloud Guard portal to create an account.

Installation

To use shiftleft you will need to:

1. Install the shiftleft CLI binary
2. Generate an autorization token in the CloudGuard portal
3. Setup the token in your environment

Detailed Instructions

Choose your desired platform:

Windows

Step	Description
1	Download the x64 or 386 shiftleft standalone binary.
2	Save the shiftleft.exe file in a directory in your current PATH
3	Generate a CloudGuard access token in the CloudGuard portal. Show me how
4	Set the CloudGuard ID and secret in your environment. In a windows command terminal type: setx CHKP_CLOUDGUARD_ID the-token-id-from-step-3 setx CHKP_CLOUDGUARD_SECRET the-secret-from-step-3
5	Launch a new command terminal, and verify that shiftleft is properly installed: C:\>shiftleft –-version 0.0.24

Linux

Step	Description
1	Download the x64 or 386 shiftleft standalone binary.
2	Make shiftleft executable and move the file into a directory in your current PATH, for example: chmod +x shiftleft mv shiftleft ~/bin
3	Generate a CloudGuard access token in the CloudGuard portal. Show me how
4	Set the CloudGuard ID and secret in your environment as appropriate. For example, add the following to ~/.profile export CHKP_CLOUDGUARD_ID=the-token-id-from-step-3 export CHKP_CLOUDGUARD_SECRET=the-secret-from-step-3
5	Launch a new command terminal, and verify that shiftleft is properly installed: $shiftleft –-version 0.0.24

Mac OS

Step	Description
1	Download the x64 shiftleft standalone binary.
2	Make shiftleft executable, allow it to run unsigned, and move the file into a directory in your current PATH, for example: chmod +x shiftleft spctl --add shiftleft sudo mv shiftleft /usr/bin
3	Generate a CloudGuard access token in the CloudGuard portal. Show me how
4	Set the CloudGuard ID and secret in your environment as appropriate. For example, add the following to ~/.bash_profile export CHKP_CLOUDGUARD_ID=the-token-id-from-step-3 export CHKP_CLOUDGUARD_SECRET=the-secret-from-step-3
5	Launch a new command terminal, and verify that shiftleft is properly installed: user-mbp:~ user$ shiftleft –-version 0.0.24

Blades

shiftleft is a CLI tool framework that allows access to multiple services. The services are called blades, and each individual blade provides a specific service.

The blades currently available are:

Blade Name	Description	Usage Example
iac-assessment	Scans Infrastructure-as-code templates, enabling DevOps and security teams to identify insecure configurations	shiftleft iac-assessment -h
image-scan	Scans container images for security risks and vulnerabilities	shiftleft image-scan -h
sourceguard	source-code security and visibility into the risk analysis of projects	shiftleft sourceguard -h

Use Cases

There are many ways the shiftleft framework can be used, but to provide a basic sense of how the tool can be used, here are some sample use cases:

Scanning Terraform Templates for Risk

You have a Terraform configuration in the ./my_config folder, and you want to run ruleset number -64 on this file to check if it is compliant.

shiftleft iac-assessment -p ./my_config -r -64 

Please refer to the detailed documentation for the iac-assesment blade below.

Scanning Container Tar File for Vulnerabilities

You have a container image called my_container.tar that you want to scan for vulnerabilities.

shiftleft image-scan -i my_container.tar

Scanning Container Image for Vulnerabilities

You have a container image called myrepo/myimage:version that you want to scan for vulnerabilities.

docker save -o my_container.tar myrepo/myimage:version
shiftleft image-scan -i my_container.tar

Updates

The shiftleft CLI tool will automatically check for updates to the tool and any blades that you use, each time it's run.

Using the CLI Tool

The CLI tool is used to run the various service blades. Both the tool and the blade can receive arguments. In general, arguments to the too precede the blade name, while arguments to the specific blade follow the blade name:

shiftleft --argument_for=tool blade_name --argument_for_blade

The CLI tool accepts the following arguments:

-D, --debug                  debug output flag
-d, --directory string       working directory (default is temp dir)
-f, --force-version string   use blade specific version
-h, --help                   show usage
-t, --timeout int            timeout (default 600)
-u, --update                 auto upgrade/update (default true)
-V, --version                show version

For example, to prevent the tool from updating while executing you could run:

shiftleft --update=false image-scan -i image.tar

To get help information about the tool, you could type:

shiftleft -h

To get help information about a specific blade, you could type:

shiftleft image-scan -h
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