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This skill helps you perform comprehensive security audits by analyzing code, infrastructure, and configurations with the security-pro-pack tools.

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---
name: performing-security-audits
description: |
  Analyze code, infrastructure, and configurations by conducting comprehensive security audits. It leverages tools within the security-pro-pack plugin, including vulnerability scanning, compliance checking, and cryptography review. Use when assessing security or running audits. Trigger with phrases like 'security scan', 'audit', or 'vulnerability'.
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(cmd:*)
version: 1.0.0
author: Jeremy Longshore <[email protected]>
license: MIT
---
# Security Pro Pack

This skill provides automated assistance for security pro pack tasks.

## Overview


This skill provides automated assistance for security pro pack tasks.
This skill empowers Claude to perform in-depth security audits across various domains, from code vulnerability scanning to compliance verification and infrastructure security assessment. It utilizes the specialized tools within the security-pro-pack to provide a comprehensive security posture analysis.

## How It Works

1. **Analysis Selection**: Claude determines the appropriate security-pro-pack tool (e.g., `Security Auditor Expert`, `Compliance Checker`, `Crypto Audit`) based on the user's request and the context of the code or system being analyzed.
2. **Execution**: Claude executes the selected tool, providing it with the relevant code, configuration files, or API endpoints.
3. **Reporting**: Claude aggregates and presents the findings in a clear, actionable report, highlighting vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and potential security risks, along with suggested remediation steps.

## When to Use This Skill

This skill activates when you need to:
- Assess the security of code for vulnerabilities like those in the OWASP Top 10.
- Evaluate compliance with standards such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, or SOC 2.
- Review cryptographic implementations for weaknesses.
- Perform container security scans or API security audits.

## Examples

### Example 1: Vulnerability Assessment

User request: "Please perform a security audit on this authentication code to find any potential vulnerabilities."

The skill will:
1. Invoke the `Security Auditor Expert` agent.
2. Analyze the provided authentication code for common vulnerabilities.
3. Generate a report detailing any identified vulnerabilities, their severity, and recommended fixes.

### Example 2: Compliance Check

User request: "Check this application against GDPR compliance requirements."

The skill will:
1. Invoke the `Compliance Checker` agent.
2. Evaluate the application's architecture and code against GDPR guidelines.
3. Generate a report highlighting any non-compliant areas and suggesting necessary changes.

## Best Practices

- **Specificity**: Provide clear and specific instructions about the scope of the audit (e.g., "audit this specific function" instead of "audit the whole codebase").
- **Context**: Include relevant context about the application, infrastructure, or data being audited to enable more accurate and relevant results.
- **Iteration**: Use the skill iteratively, addressing the most critical findings first and then progressively improving the overall security posture.

## Integration

This skill seamlessly integrates with all other components of the security-pro-pack plugin. It also works well with Claude's existing code analysis capabilities, allowing for a holistic and integrated security review process.

## Prerequisites

- Appropriate file access permissions
- Required dependencies installed

## Instructions

1. Invoke this skill when the trigger conditions are met
2. Provide necessary context and parameters
3. Review the generated output
4. Apply modifications as needed

## Output

The skill produces structured output relevant to the task.

## Error Handling

- Invalid input: Prompts for correction
- Missing dependencies: Lists required components
- Permission errors: Suggests remediation steps

## Resources

- Project documentation
- Related skills and commands

Overview

This skill automates comprehensive security audits across code, infrastructure, and configurations using the security-pro-pack toolset. It enables rapid vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and cryptography reviews and delivers actionable reports to guide remediation. Use it to assess security posture, prioritize fixes, and validate compliance.

How this skill works

The skill selects the appropriate security-pro-pack tool (for example, Security Auditor Expert, Compliance Checker, or Crypto Audit) based on your request and the supplied context. It runs targeted scans against code, configuration files, containers, or APIs, correlates findings, and produces a prioritized report with severity, impact, and recommended fixes. It can iterate on findings if you provide modified artifacts or follow-up scope.

When to use it

  • You need a vulnerability scan of application code or libraries (OWASP Top 10, SAST patterns).
  • You must evaluate compliance against standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or SOC 2.
  • You want a cryptography review of key usage, algorithm selection, or randomness.
  • You are performing container or infrastructure security assessments (images, IaC, Kubernetes).
  • You require an audit report to guide remediation or to feed security tickets.

Best practices

  • Be specific about scope: point to files, modules, containers, or endpoints to reduce noise.
  • Provide context: runtime environment, dependencies, deployment model, and threat model.
  • Start with high-severity findings first and iterate: re-run scans after fixes to verify remediation.
  • Ensure the tool has file and environment access and required dependencies installed.
  • Treat automated findings as prioritized guidance; validate high-impact issues manually.

Example use cases

  • Run a security scan on an authentication module to find insecure token handling or injection risks.
  • Check an application architecture and data flows for GDPR compliance gaps and record-keeping issues.
  • Audit cryptographic primitives and key management in a payment processing module.
  • Scan container images and Kubernetes manifests for misconfigurations and vulnerable packages.
  • Produce a compliance-ready report to share with auditors or internal security stakeholders.

FAQ

What inputs does the skill need to run an audit?

Provide the relevant code files, configuration files, container images, or API endpoints and any environment context or compliance standard to evaluate.

How are findings prioritized?

Findings are ranked by severity and exploitability, with suggested remediation steps and confidence levels to help prioritize fixes.