Introducing cloud-native security
As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, the cloud offers significant advantages in accelerating solution development and deployment while optimizing costs. However, these benefits can only be fully realized if we also modernize how we approach security. Cloud-native security embraces the shift-left principle, which emphasizes incorporating security earlier in the asset life cycle. Addressing security from the outset helps avoid late-stage issues and deployment delays. That said, implementing this approach is often more challenging than it sounds.
In many cases, developers—particularly early adopters—and infrastructure teams have adopted modern practices such as infrastructure as code, while security teams remain entrenched in traditional, reactive, and waterfall-driven processes. It’s not uncommon for firewall rule changes to take days to be approved and implemented, which stands in stark contrast to the shift-left...
