A practical guide to approaching DevSecOps in the cloud

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Interested in learning more about DevSecOps and IaC security?

It’s no secret that embedding security earlier in the development lifecycle can help make security patching easier and reduce friction with security teams. That’s why the DevSecOps movement has been so instrumental in areas like AppSec and container security.

Cloud security hasn’t seen the same pickup...but that’s changing fast with the growing adoption of infrastructure as code (IaC), a process that introduces automation and rapid scaling to cloud resource provisioning.

Here’s the thing. If developers use flawed IaC to build new resources, provisioned infrastructure will contain those same misconfigurations. DevSecOps in the cloud adds security earlier in the development process—to secure infrastructure from code to cloud.

In this practical guide, we identify the challenges of approaching DevSecOps in the cloud and offer actionable tips for embracing DevSecOps with infrastructure as code (IaC). --

What you'll get out of this guide:

Key benefits and risks of IaC
Research on the state of IaC security
How to address DevSecOps challenges when leveraging IaC
Where to embed cloud security at each step of the development lifecycle

The goal of incorporating DevSecOps within the cloud isn’t to turn your infrastructure engineers into security experts, but to embed cloud security into developer tools and processes so that it never slows down your DevOps workflows.

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