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The benefits of Infrastructure as Code include higher velocity and more consistent deployment.
If security teams are able to keep up with the pace of modern development, velocity is a good thing. In the past, outdated practices and processes have held security back, while innovation in software development has grown quickly.
IaC is more than just a boon for developers, it is a technology that enables security teams to move forward in maturity. Many security teams are still figuring out how to use modern approaches to develop cloud applications IaC can be a risky business if security teams don't keep up with the rapid changes to cloud architectures.
Five critical areas to invest in if your organization adopts IaC.
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Register HereA challenge for security teams is finding the time and resources to build security design patterns for cloud and hybrid architectures.
Modern development requires security design patterns to stay up to date. They help solution architects and developers speed up by having clear rules that define the best practices security would like them to follow. The security team can focus on strategic needs.
These patterns can be built and codifyed by IaC. Many organizations invest in templatizing. For common technology use cases, security teams establish standards by building out IaC templates that meet the organization's security requirements.
Templatization is not a cure for everything. It can add value for some cloud resources, but needs an investment in security automation to scale.
Your cloud architectures become more complex as you mature in your use of IaC. You will find that static IaC templates do not scale to address the dynamic needs of modern cloud-native applications because your developers are able to quickly adopt new cloud architectures and capabilities.
Every application has different needs, and each application development team will inevitably change the IaC template to fit that. Your IaC security template is a depreciating asset if your cloud service provider's capabilities change daily. There is a need for a large investment in governance to scale for security teams.
It's possible to scale your security teams by using automation that relies on security as code. It may be the only viable way to address security in the cloud. It allows you to apply security in a way that suits your application use case.
You can use security as code to manage your security pattern.
There is a ratio of developers to ops. I spoke to an organization with 10,000 developers and 3 App Sec engineers. The only way to scale and prioritize their time efficiently is to rely on automation.
You will want to make changes through code once you reach sufficient maturity. You can build on good software development governance processes to make sure that every code change gets reviewed.
It's now possible to assess every change to your cloud-native apps and provide visibility into any potential inherent risks with the integration of security automation. You can build governance processes that make sure security issues are fixed.
Changes to your cloud environment will be made through IaC along with traditional channels such as theCSP console or command-line tools. Developers lose visibility when they make changes to environments. Assessing your IaC can give you an incomplete picture because your source of truth won't be represented by your IaC.
If you invest in drift detection capabilities that verify your deployed environments against your IaC, you can make sure that any drift is detected and mitigated.
The security teams should try to reduce the amount of time it takes to implement security. Ensuring that security automation is serving the needs of the developer is helped by having developer champion within security. A positive feedback loop can be created by the security champion within the development team.
IaC can be a risk, but it doesn't have to be. If you can invest in the right places, you can see higher velocity and more consistency. The security team at your organization will be best positioned to keep up with the fast and frequent changes during IaC adoption if they are strategically and intentionally invested in the necessary areas.
IaC has something for everyone, so are you ready to take advantage of it? It is no better time than now.
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