Why Infrastructure-as-Code Coverage Matters for Cloud Security
Summary
The article argues that IaC coverage measures how much cloud infrastructure is governed and traceable through code, and proposes a funnel from resources that could be codified to those mapped to maintainable source code.
Key points
- Infrastructure created outside code may miss pipeline checks, drift detection, and a reliable source for tracing or rebuilding it.
- The proposed coverage funnel has three stages: resources that could be defined in code, resources tracked by IaC state, and resources mapped to an active code declaration.
- Resources missing from the funnel indicate different work: bring unmanaged infrastructure under IaC, or reconnect tracked resources to their source code.
- Code traceability can support targeted remediation, recovery from incidents, and validation before infrastructure reaches production.
- Wiz says its IaC Inventory reconciles code with deployed resources and maps findings back to the relevant module and owner.
Article Details
- Topic
- Infrastructure-as-Code coverage as a cloud security metric, measured through supported, tracked, and code-mapped resources.
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