This blog post discusses the challenges of current cloud security tools that create silos between engineering and security teams, leading to wasted time managing tickets and policy changes in administrative consoles. The ideal approach is to secure cloud infrastructure as code, bringing IaC and cloud security together with a unified policy-as-code engine. Snyk IaC takes a proactive approach by empowering engineering teams to secure the cloud from the start, finding and enabling fixes for misconfigurations in IaC code pre-build and pre-production. This approach improves the risk posture of deployed infrastructure, reduces developer and security rework, and enables developers to secure the entire cloud engineering lifecycle and codify security standards from IaC code to cloud and back to code.