How to improve the security of your Infrastructure-as-Code deployments

Datadog has reported that 80% of organizations using AWS infrastructure use at least one Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool, but still manually provision infrastructure in production, creating inconsistencies and security risks. To address these challenges, it's essential to identify and close common security gaps in IaC by implementing goals such as inventorying infrastructure with tags, defining IaC and Policy-as-Code rules, shifting policies left into the CI/CD pipeline, and enabling continuous monitoring on your infrastructure. These steps can strengthen security posture and reduce risks from misconfigurations and drift, even in complex environments where ClickOps is prevalent.