It's the cloud's world now, and we're all just living in it. The mass migration of organizational infrastructure to the cloud isn't slowing down any time soon — and really, why would it? Cloud computing has allowed developers to move at vastly greater speeds than ever before. And this in turn lets businesses move at greater speeds than ever before. What could go wrong?
If you're reading this blog, you probably already know the answer: data security and regulatory compliance. With so much development, testing, and deployment happening all the time, it's far too easy for infrastructure misconfigurations, compliance violations, or other risks to slip through the cracks.
Right now, these risks are most often found and addressed at runtime, after the proverbial barn door has already been left open and the horses are long gone. It's obviously not ideal to have developers racing around trying to fix security issues that have already gone live and put the organization at risk. It's also not all that optimal for those developers to constantly have to drop their current projects to put out security fires.
So our beleaguered security teams are stuck acting as the organizational killjoys constantly pumping the brakes on development, while developers are left unable to take full advantage of the speed cloud offers them. The bottom line: No one's happy.
The power of infrastructure as code
This, of course, is where our favorite catchy slogan “shift left" comes into play. What organizations need to address all these issues is to shift security left, earlier in the development cycle. This shift allows teams to catch misconfigurations before they go live and expose an organization to risk. In this way, shifting left also keeps security from becoming a bottleneck for deve ..
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