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Policy-as-Code: WTF Is It?
- Policy-as-Code (PaC) automates cloud policy management to avoid security issues and ensure compliance effortlessly for consistent application across systems.
- NIST and CISA provide significant insights into concepts closely aligned with PaC, supporting its adoption in modern cybersecurity frameworks.
- PaC operationalizes cybersecurity policies by automating their enforcement and integrating them into system lifecycles.
- PaC automates policy enforcement for consistent, adaptive, and scalable across environments and embedding security policies into software systems.
- PaC enables organizations to create more agile, adaptive, and compliant systems, reducing reaction time to potential threats.
- PaC describes automating and enforcing cloud policies through writing, testing, and enforcement of policies using code.
- Automation eliminates the manual process of setting thousands of security rules, and version controls policies in code, ensuring consistency.
- PaC tools such as CloudGuard Spectral, OPA (Open Policy Agent), Terraform Cloud Policy-as-Code Framework, and Kubernetes Admission Controllers, help automate policy enforcement in code repositories.
- While getting started with PaC may be daunting, tons of templates and community examples exist to help avoid reinventing the wheel.
- PaC ensures consistent policies, making them easier to manage, eliminates manual rules, and catches mistakes before becoming a crisis.
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