DonвҖҷt leave cloud security to chance: 7 mistakes and how to avoid them

Cloud security is a top concern for CIOs as cloud resources are rapidly being provisioned across enterprises, potentially introducing systemic vulnerabilities that increase cybersecurity risk. This blog presents seven common mistakes development teams make when managing cloud resources and how to avoid them through effective Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM). By adopting tools and techniques to standardize the approach to infrastructure enterprise-wide, CIOs and IT organizations can reduce current cyber risks and advance their ILM maturity. The seven solution steps discussed in this blog include using an infrastructure as code (IaC) solution for automation, enabling cross-functional collaboration with a platform-oriented approach, standardizing cloud provisioning with golden best practice templates, incorporating policy as code to meet risk and cost requirements, monitoring infrastructure drift and health over time, automating infrastructure deletion, and providing developers with self-service freedom within the golden path.