Secure your Ansible surface
Hardcoded credentials in playbooks, weakly protected vaults, and privilege escalation applied everywhere by default. We don’t connect to Ansible to collect evidence for its own sake — we connect to secure it, and the compliance artefacts follow from that work.
Book a Demo[01] What This Surface Exposes
Where Ansible goes wrong
Ansible goes wrong in source control: credentials written into playbooks stay in git history long after someone removes them.
- Credentials written directly into playbooks and committed to source control
- Vault files encrypted with weak or widely shared passwords
- Inventories mixing production and non-production hosts without separation
- become: yes applied globally rather than to the tasks that need it
- Collections and roles pulled from unpinned or untrusted sources
[02] What We Secure
What we watch, catch and fix on Ansible
On Ansible we scan playbooks and inventories across full git history, because a secret deleted in a later commit is still retrievable.
- Playbook and inventory scanning for embedded secrets across full git history
- Vault key management reviewed as a real key management problem
- Privilege escalation usage audited task by task
- Collection sources and versions tracked as a supply chain surface
- Run history correlated with change records for configuration change evidence
[03] Where It Lands
Where Ansible lands in your registers
Every cloud resource we discover becomes an entry in your asset register with an owner, a criticality rating, and its data classification. Access reviews cover the IAM principals attached to it, and the risk register carries the mapping between the asset and the risks it actually carries — so a public bucket is a named risk against a named asset, not a line item in a scan report.
[04] How We Engage
On Ansible specifically
On Ansible, we remediate embedded secrets, rotate what they exposed, and tighten escalation scope. Restructuring inventories and vault key management we run as a scoped project.
Platform licence
Everything you need to find and fix it yourself, with no ceiling on the depth of the answer.
- Every connected tool monitored for misconfiguration and drift, with findings mapped to the assets and risks they affect
- Remediation guidance that tells you what is wrong and exactly how to fix it — however deep or awkward the issue is. We are engineers running a security company, so the answer is the real one, not a link to vendor documentation
- Assets, access reviews, and risk register populated from the tools themselves rather than from spreadsheets
- Unlimited integrations and unlimited users, with anything missing built within two weeks
Managed service
Every tool you connect through Konfirmity comes under our care, with our team doing the work.
- Continuous misconfiguration and drift monitoring across every connected tool, watched by our analysts rather than by a dashboard waiting for you
- Incident response led by us, with containment coordinated with your team
- Remediation performed directly wherever you have granted us the authority to act — and where we cannot act, we project-manage the fix to completion rather than handing you a ticket
- Decision support on the tools themselves: where something is failing you on capability or costing more than it returns, we will tell you, and help you replace it
[05] Ansible FAQs
How do you handle Ansible Vault?
We review vault usage as a key management problem, which is what it is. A vault encrypted with a password shared across the team in a chat message provides very little. Konfirmity checks how vault keys are stored, who holds them, and whether they have ever been rotated.
Do you review privilege escalation in playbooks?
Yes, task by task. Applying become globally is convenient and means every task runs with elevated rights whether it needs them or not. We identify where escalation is genuinely required and help you narrow it to those tasks.
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