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The solution to manual cloud ops is policies

Application Security Testing or AST tools are critical for ensuring software security, but organizations must ensure that their tools can keep up with the ever-increasing development speeds. Additionally, understanding software risk at the development level is essential for ensuring compliance and security. However, without a cohesive testing strategy, organizations can end up with manual scanning and coordination processes that can delay projects and impact the bottom line.

This blog post will discuss how cloud ops can work on a policy-as-code solution to manage testing and reduce risk.

What is a policy-as-code?

Policy-as-code is a way of managing and automating policy using code. It allows you to write and manage policy using a programming language, which can then be used to automate policy enforcement. In a nutshell, policy-as-code is a way to manage and enforce policy using code. This can be done through code review tools, automated testing, and/or continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Policy-as-code can help organizations define, enforce, and track compliance with company policies. It can also help automate the policy enforcement, making it more efficient and consistent.

What are the benefits of policy-as-code?

There are several benefits to using policy-as-code:

  • Consistency and compliance: By writing policies and procedures as code, you can be sure that they will be executed in the same way every time. This can be especially important for compliance, as it can help ensure that your software meets all relevant regulations.
  • Improve efficiency: By automating the enforcement of policies and procedures, you can reduce the time and effort required to ensure compliance. This can be especially helpful in large organizations, where enforcing policies can be daunting.
  • Improve transparency: By making policies and procedures visible to all members of the organization, you can help to ensure that everyone is aware of their responsibilities and knows how to comply with the relevant policies.
  • Reduced complexity: Policy-as-code can simplify complex policy rules by automating them.
  • Improved governance: Policy-as-code can help to improve governance by providing visibility into policy enforcement and compliance.
  • Greater flexibility: Policy-as-code can be more flexible than traditional policy management approaches, as it can be easily updated and modified.
  • Reduces uncertainty: Policy as Code provides managers and employees with a clear view of access privileges throughout the organization, reducing uncertainty. The right people can review permissions anywhere in the organization. Stakeholders can submit a request which can be quickly reviewed by admins.

How does policy-as-code work?

Policies written in a high-level language can be administered and automated using policy-as-code. A policy engine that accepts a query, some data, and policy as input, processes it all and generates a query result. There are policy engines available in the market that are open-source. Various policy enforcement platforms simplify the entire process.

How does policy-as-code work

Three elements are used by policy-as-code to work. The first element is the policy that contains the code that models the decision-making process. The second element is the data that comprises information about an application, a service, or the environment. Last is the query that triggers the decision-making process based on the data available and the policy provided.

Use cases of policy-as-code

  • Data Security: You can use policy-as-code to define and enforce data security policies. This can help you protect your data from unauthorized access and accidental or unauthorized destruction.
  • Compliance: You can use policy-as-code to help you to comply with regulatory requirements. You can define the policies in code and then automate the enforcement of the policies. This can help you to ensure compliance with the regulations.
  • Infrastructure Provisioning: You can use policy-as-code to limit resources that can be accessed by a particular user or group of users. This can help you to ensure that only authorized users can access the resources.
  • Resource Allocation: You can use policy-as-code to limit the number of resources that can be accessed by a particular user or group of users. This can help you ensure that only authorized users can access the resources and that they do not consume more than their fair share of the resources.
  • Configuration Management: You can use policy-as-code to configure resources. This can help you automate the configuration of resources and enforce the configuration policies.

Conclusion

Overall, policy-as-code can be a valuable tool for improving the quality and consistency of your software. It can help to ensure compliance with relevant regulations, improve efficiency, and improve transparency. Organizations that rely on manual processes and reviews to enforce policy risk being overwhelmed and making mistakes. Unifying and automating your policies with policy-as-code can provide you with greater visibility for auditing and compliance. This approach builds upon infrastructure as code, which brought similar benefits. Policy as Code can help companies simplify data governance, access control, and activity monitoring for better visibility.

If you have questions related to this topic, feel free to book a meeting with one of our solutions experts, mail to sales@amazic.com.

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