Security as Code: How Repeatable Policy-Driven ...

While the approach has many benefits, traditional security approaches typically slow down the software development life cycle and can evaporate the benefits of using IaC. That's why there is a real need for organizations to take a "security as code" (SaC) approach to fully recognize the benefits of automation that composable, repeatable, and fully auditable infrastructure can provide. IaC Requires A New Security Approach Simply put, securing automation code is critical because in many cases it literally runs our businesses. IaC systems are automatically deploying resources and applications. A vulnerability or a misconfiguration in an IaC workflow could have a cascading impact, across multiple workloads and deployments that could enable a potential attacker to cause a lot of damage. IaC is very powerful, so when mistakes happen, they happen fast, and exponentially.