As organizations increasingly adopt cloud architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), the management of policies required to maintain security, compliance, and operational efficiency is becoming more complex. Managing these policies manually can be time-consuming and error-prone, not to mention difficult to scale. Policy as Code (PaC) offers a solution to these challenges by automating policy creation, enforcement, and maintenance.
This article provides an overview of how PaC works and how we used Checkov to automate the detection of misconfigurations and security risks in IaC files.
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