Know your Kafka is secure.
KafkaGuard scans every broker, topic, and ACL against PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 — 55 controls, in under 90 seconds, not weeks.
From zero to audit-ready in three steps
Run the scan
One command. Point it at your Kafka bootstrap address. KafkaGuard connects with read-only credentials — no agents, no data leaves your network.
See your issues
Get a prioritised list of misconfigurations: missing TLS, wildcard ACLs, unencrypted inter-broker traffic. Severity-ranked so you fix the right things first.
Hand over the report
HTML, JSON, PDF, or CSV — with exact PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 control IDs pre-filled. Ready to give directly to your auditor.
This is what your auditor receives
A real scan of a Kafka 3.9 cluster. Community edition shows 21 controls without compliance IDs — upgrade to Starter for the full compliance mapping.
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Do you have any of these in production right now?
These are the most common findings in clusters we scan — most teams discover at least 3.
Built for teams under compliance pressure
Preparing for a SOC 2 audit
Auditors will ask for evidence that your Kafka clusters meet security controls. KafkaGuard generates the exact evidence — with SOC 2 control IDs pre-mapped — in under 90 seconds. Hand it directly to your auditor.
New CISO reviewing Kafka security posture
Joining a new company or inheriting a Kafka cluster? Get a full security posture report in minutes. Know exactly what's misconfigured, what compliance frameworks are affected, and what to fix first.
DevSecOps — Kafka in CI/CD pipelines
Run KafkaGuard as a CronJob or CI step. Fail the pipeline on HIGH severity findings. Get Slack alerts when a misconfiguration slips into production. Shift Kafka security left.
Free Kafka Security Checklist
55 controls auditors check — mapped to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. Get the PDF free.
Used by 200+ platform and security engineers
Every check mapped to the controls auditors ask about
54 controls across security, reliability, and operations
Apache Kafka 2.6 through 4.x — ZooKeeper and KRaft
Auto-detects cluster mode. No extra configuration needed.
Designed to work with Amazon MSK, Aiven, and Redpanda — any distribution using the standard Kafka Admin API.
Full compatibility table →Run your first scan in 90 seconds.
Free, open-source, agentless. No agents to install. No data leaves your network.