From the course: Building a Multicloud Security Program: Strategy, Implementation, and Emerging Trends
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Policy automation and infrastructure as code (IaC)
From the course: Building a Multicloud Security Program: Strategy, Implementation, and Emerging Trends
Policy automation and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- As we've discussed, maintaining consistent security controls across multiple cloud environments is important for reducing risk and ensuring compliance. One of the most effective ways to achieve this consistency is through policy automation and infrastructure as code. In this video, we'll explore how infrastructure as code enables security automation, reduces misconfigurations, and enforces policies at scale. First, let's define infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code allows you to provision and manage your cloud infrastructure using code rather than manual configurations. Tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure Resource Manager allow security team to define policies as code, ensuring that security settings are applied consistently across cloud providers. Automating security policies ensure that security best practices are enforced across all deployments. For example, an organization can define security policies in code to require encryption for all cloud storage…
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