cartography

Documentation

Cartography is a Python tool that pulls infrastructure assets and their relationships into a Neo4j graph database.

What it connects: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Okta, Entra ID, CrowdStrike, and 30+ more platforms.

Questions it answers:

• Which identities have access to which datastores? How about across multiple tenants, or providers?
• Am I affected by any critical vulnerabilities or compromised software packages?
• What are the network paths in and out of my environment?
• Which compute instances are exposed to the internet?
• What AI agents are running in production, and what permissions do they have?

Quick Start

Install Cartography

pip install cartography

Install cartography[neo4j-rust] instead to swap in Neo4j's Rust Bolt codec, which cuts sync time by roughly 20-30%. See Faster Neo4j driver.

Start Neo4j database

docker run -d --publish=7474:7474 --publish=7687:7687 -v data:/data --env=NEO4J_AUTH=none neo4j:5-community

Confirm that http://localhost:7474 is up.

Sync your first data source (AWS example)

Ensure your AWS credentials and default region are configured (e.g. via AWS_PROFILE, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, or ~/.aws/config). See AWS credentials docs for reference.

Run Cartography:

cartography --neo4j-uri bolt://localhost:7687 --selected-modules aws

See the full install guide for other platforms.

Query the graph

Open http://localhost:7474 and try:

// Find unencrypted RDS instances by account
MATCH (a:AWSAccount)-[:RESOURCE]->(rds:AWSRDSInstance{storage_encrypted:false})
RETURN a.name, rds.id

// Find EC2 instances exposed to the internet
MATCH (instance:AWSEC2Instance{exposed_internet: true})
RETURN instance.instanceid, instance.publicdnsname

See the querying tutorial and data schema for more use-cases.

Run security rules

Once Cartography has populated the reachable Neo4j graph, list, inspect, and run security rules. This quickstart uses the no-auth Neo4j container started above, so no password is required:

cartography-rules list
cartography-rules list object_storage_public
cartography-rules run object_storage_public

For authenticated Neo4j, set NEO4J_PASSWORD or use one of the other secure password options in the rules docs.

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