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Teams operating multi-cloud environments routinely face a high volume of vulnerabilities and misconfiguration issues that must be addressed quickly. In large workloads, these findings often span multiple services and providers, making remediation difficult to standardize. Platform and security engineers are expected to understand service-specific APIs, CLI commands, and configuration patterns across a wide range of technologies, which does not scale well.
Workflow overview
Prowler is used as the detection layer, identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across environments. From the findings list, an engineer selects a specific issue to remediate.
Once selected, the Prowler Autonomous Fixer analyzes the finding and proposes a remediation plan. Each action is explained before execution and requires explicit user approval. No changes are applied automatically without confirmation, which allows the fixer to be used safely in production environments.
After remediation is completed, Prowler re-evaluates the affected resources to verify that the finding has been resolved. This validation step ensures that the applied change has the intended effect and that no residual misconfiguration remains.
To make the fix persistent, the Prowler Autonomous Fixer generates a Terraform snippet that reflects the corrected configuration. This allows teams to incorporate the fix into their infrastructure-as-code workflows and prevent the issue from being reintroduced in future deployments. In addition, general recommendations are provided to help avoid similar misconfigurations.
Example
fixing iam_user_administrator_access_policy
The following video demonstrates a complete remediation cycle using a real finding.
In this example, Prowler detects a single finding for the check iam_user_administrator_access_policy, indicating that an IAM user has an administrator-level policy attached. This configuration violates the principle of least privilege and increases the potential impact of credential compromise.
After selecting the finding, the Prowler Autonomous Fixer guides the remediation process by:
- Identifying the attached administrator policy
- Proposing its removal
- Requesting confirmation before applying the change
Once the fix is applied, Prowler runs the same check again to confirm that the finding went from a FAIL to a PASS. The validation confirms that the administrator access has been successfully removed and the resource is now compliant.
Finally, the Prowler Autonomous Fixer outputs the corresponding Terraform configuration and provides guidance to ensure administrator-level access is not unintentionally granted to IAM users in future changes.
This example illustrates how detection, remediation, and verification are combined into a single, repeatable workflow that reduces manual effort while maintaining control and traceability.