Infrastructure as code lets developers simply write code to deploy infrastructure. As an efficiency tool, it’s hard to beat. But while devs are experts at building applications, their experience varies when it comes to provisioning, testing, and securing IaC. As a result, as your IaC usage grows, so does the likelihood of misconfiguration and other mistakes, which can quickly propagate across your entire cloud infrastructure.

IaC boosts efficiency, but it also amplifies mistakes. Your Security and DevOps teams’ biggest challenge is proactively identifying and remediating security issues early in the development life cycle.

The Problem

Unsecured IaC leaves you vulnerable

Risk of misconfiguration

Modern apps need frequent updates, forcing you to reconfigure infrastructure repeatedly, increasing the risk of mistakes and config drift.

Data exposure

IaC templates with vulnerabilities and insecure default configurations can lead to sensitive data exposure.

Operational complexity

Manual processes, infrequent scans, and siloed tools can’t keep up with rapid development and continuous release cycles.

“By 2023, 60% of organizations will use infrastructure automation tools as part of their DevOps toolchains, improving application deployment efficiency by 25%.” — Gartner

Solution Overview

Proactively secure your IaC

Seamlessly integrate cloud security best practices into development workflows and tools to prevent violations and insecure configurations—and realize the full power of IaC—with Posture Control™.

Posture Control helps you proactively secure IaC with an integrated, cloud-native platform that embeds security best practices in developer environments, integration tools, and source code repositories. Using predefined policies to identify and prioritize high-risk misconfigurations, code leaks, environmental drift, and more, you’ll keep continuous IaC governance under control with ease.

Rich context and guided remediation provide direct feedback in popular DevOps tools and workflows, including integrated development environments (IDEs), continuous integration (CI) tools, and version control systems (VCS). Posture Control improves overall cloud security posture while reducing the burden on security and operations teams as well as mitigating cross-team friction.

Benefits

Easier, safer, faster IaC security

Centralize management

Get a complete view of configuration issues with the IaC dashboard. Visualize the security and compliance posture of your code repository. Drill down to easily identify, investigate, and remediate violations.

Reduce risk without burdening developers

Integrate IaC best practices, configuration checks, and clear security guidance with native plugins into dev and DevOps tools for uninterrupted workflows and an easier path to preventing misconfigurations, minimizing security risks, and staying compliant.

Accelerate innovation

Provision and manage cloud infrastructure at scale safely and efficiently without sacrificing security.

Solution Details

What can Zscaler IaC security do for you?

Prevent IaC misconfigurations

Keep your cloud infrastructure secure with automated scanning that enables your developers to identify and remediate IaC misconfigurations and policy violations.

Integrate scanning in developer workflows

Avoid common misconfigurations, minimize risk, and stay compliant with easy integration and enforcement of IaC best practices; configuration checks in developer workflows, code repositories, and CI/CD pipelines; and custom rules.

Get rapid, guided remediation

Enhance developer experience and productivity by identifying issues with the right context, integrated security guidance, and recommendations to resolve issues quickly. This helps to significantly reduce friction and enhances team collaboration between security and development teams.

Stop configuration drift

Easily manage configuration drift and deviations in ports, processes, metrics, and configurations

Enforce guardrails

Reduce the burden on your security team and resources with automated guardrails to prevent the provisioning of risky code, even if the original developer doesn’t address it.

Generate alerts in near-real-time

Send rapid security alerts and give code owners full context on issues, impact, and action required to remediate issues through easy integration with ticketing tools.

Technology Integrations

IaC frameworks and cloud providers
Secure IaC seamlessly within these supported environments and tools:

Code repositories

GitHub
GitLab

CI/CD tools

GitHub Actions
Jenkins

CLI scanners

Visual Studio
Windows, macOS, and Linux

Cloud platforms

Amazon AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud

IaC templates

AWS Cloud Formation (JSON, YAML)
Helm
Kubernetes
Terraform

Near-real-time alerting and notifications
Enhance cross-team collaboration for quick, effective remediation on these supported platforms:

Splunk

ServiceNow

JIRA

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Identify and remediate IaC misconfigurations within developer workflows, keep your cloud infrastructure safe, and adhere to IaC best practices with Posture Control.