Infrastructure as code is a movement ready to boom. It’s also emerging as one of the three pillars in cloud security that is bringing DevOps and security together in the evolving DevSecOps market, said Varun Badhwar, senior vice president, Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, in this episode of The New Stack Makers hosted by TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams.

Infrastructure as code is also a major component of the DevOps’ trend to shift left. “Shift left security now means application security, it means software composition analysis and it means infrastructure as code scanning — and all of that now is available for DevOps teams to do in the pipeline,” Badhwar said.

The goal is to have one set of policies for the tools that DevOps teams are using, explained Badhwar who will be a featured speaker at Building a Scalable Strategy for Cloud Security: A Virtual Event discussing Prisma Cloud’s next wave of platform innovation. However, while infrastructure as code should increasingly take hold in the DevSecOps world, challenges remain in order for it to evolve in such a way as to best meet organizations’ security needs.

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