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 55 controls (finance-iso) without compliance framework IDs — upgrade to Starter for PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 mappings — 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.
Run KafkaGuard from inside your AI agent
Install the official skill in OpenClaw, Claude Code, or Gemini CLI and ask in plain English: “Audit our prod Kafka cluster against the enterprise policy.” The agent runs the scan, parses the report, and hands back the headline.
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.