posture
Runtime-agnostic Python library for CCM (Continuous Control Monitoring) data collection. The entire contract: credentials in, DataFrame out. Runs unchanged in Docker, Airflow, Databricks — the library never knows or cares where it executes.
See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the design behind this
library — the collect/parse split, locked design decisions, manifest schema, and
per-collector implementation notes.
See docs/index.md for every supported collector: its required
environment variables, an example query, and the full column schema for each of
its tables.
Installation
pip install posture
posture loads a .env file from the current directory (or a parent) automatically
on import — no code changes needed. Variables already set in the environment always
take precedence over .env values. Each collector's required variables are listed
on its page in docs/index.md, e.g.:
# .env
CROWDSTRIKE_CLIENT_ID=xxx
CROWDSTRIKE_CLIENT_SECRET=xxx
Usage
from posture import CCM
ccm = CCM("crowdstrike") # creds from CROWDSTRIKE_* env vars
ccm = CCM("crowdstrike", {"client_id": "xxx"}) # partial override, rest from env
df = ccm.collect("hosts") # always a complete pandas DataFrame
ccm.flush_cache() # the only cache invalidation
collect() always returns a complete pandas.DataFrame for the requested resource, or
raises — there is no such thing as a partial snapshot in this library.
Paginated retrieval, for large resources
For a resource too large to comfortably hold in memory as one DataFrame (e.g. MDE's
machine_vulnerabilities), use collect_page() instead — it yields one DataFrame per
underlying API page, so peak memory is bounded to a single page rather than the whole
resource:
for df in ccm.collect_page("machine_vulnerabilities"):
df.to_sql("machine_vulnerabilities", con, if_exists="append", index=False)
collect() is a thin wrapper over collect_page() — it just concatenates every page
into one DataFrame — so both share the same all-or-nothing guarantee: if collection
fails partway through, an exception propagates and no partial data is left for the
caller to mistake for a complete snapshot.
Discovering what's available
from posture import catalog
catalog()
# {
# "crowdstrike": {
# "required_config": {"client_id": "CROWDSTRIKE_CLIENT_ID", "client_secret": "CROWDSTRIKE_CLIENT_SECRET"},
# "resources": {
# "hosts": {"derived_from": None, "columns": ["client_id", "device_id", ...]},
# "vulnerability_remediations": {"derived_from": "vulnerabilities", "columns": [...]},
# ...
# },
# },
# "knowbe4": {...},
# ...
# }
catalog() never instantiates a collector, never touches the network, and needs no
credentials — it reads sources, required config (as constructor key → env var), and
resources (including which are derived, and their declared columns) straight off the
registered Collector classes. It only reports required config — optional knobs
(e.g. region, base_url) aren't tracked as data, so check a source's page in
docs/index.md for those.
Example: export Crowdstrike hosts to local JSON
import json
from pathlib import Path
from posture import CCM
# CROWDSTRIKE_CLIENT_ID / CROWDSTRIKE_CLIENT_SECRET must be set in the environment
ccm = CCM("crowdstrike")
df = ccm.collect("hosts")
output_dir = Path("output")
output_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
output_path = output_dir / "hosts.json"
output_path.write_text(df.to_json(orient="records", date_format="iso", indent=2))
print(f"Wrote {len(df)} hosts to {output_path}")
Supported sources
See docs/index.md for the full list of collectors, each with
its required environment variables, an example query, and the column schema for
every table it exposes.
Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest
ruff check src tests
black src tests
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