System and method for recursive inspection of workloads from configuration code to production environments

Abstract

A system and method for inspecting multiple instances across cloud computing environments for a cybersecurity issue is configured to detect a code object in a configuration code file, the code object utilized to deploy a virtual instance in a cloud computing environment; generate in a security graph a code object node representing the code object; generate in the security graph a resource node representing a virtual instance deployed in a first cloud computing environment based on the code object, wherein the resource node is connected to the code object node; detect a cybersecurity issue on the virtual instance; and generate an instruction to inspect a second virtual instance deployed in a second cloud computing environment based on the code object, the second virtual instance represented by a second resource node connected to the code object node.