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Copilot Terraform Suggestions Risk Security Flaws in Production
GitHub Copilot's Terraform autocompletions often produce insecure defaults like open security groups and public RDS instances, passing validation checks. Observed across multiple teams, these issues go unnoticed until post-deploy compliance scans. Root causes include training data skewed toward demo code and lack of state awareness.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly flags a systemic issue: Copilot's IaC suggestions are dangerously insecure, but the real fix lies in better training data and tooling, not blaming developers.
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