The Complete Playbook to Operationalizing IaC Security

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has transformed how infrastructure is provisioned and configured, enabling organizations to adopt agile development across their entire stack. With IaC, you can easily manage, configure, update, secure, and scale your infrastructure via imperative or declarative configuration files. When leveraged at scale, IaC addresses notorious cloud challenges, such as scalability, availability, configuration consistency, and right-sized infrastructure architecture for your applications. And while an IaC-based approach to cloud native development brings significant benefits, it can introduce some unique security challenges

To make your IaC adoption as seamless as possible, it’s important to build a holistic and proactive strategy— one that includes security—to get ahead of those challenges. By integrating security best practices into your IaC strategy from day one, you’ll be able to proactively mitigate some of the most common issues organizations face.

In this playbook, we’ll review some common security challenges organizations encounter when leveraging IaC, highlight the foundations for a prevention-first cloud security strategy, and give you a step-by-step guide for operationalizing IaC security at scale based on your unique needs.

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