Enforce Policy as Code for Security & Compliance

This standard mandates the enforcement of Policy as Code for security and compliance to automate governance and security policies and prevent misconfigurations.

1. Enforce Policy as Code for Security & Compliance:

Automate governance and security policies to prevent misconfigurations. This approach ensures consistent security and compliance practices.

• 1.1 Policy Enforcement Tools:
  • 1.1.1 OPA and Sentinel Utilisation:
    • Use OPA (Open Policy Agent), HashiCorp Sentinel, or AWS SCPs to enforce policies as code.
    • Automate the configuration of policy enforcement tools.
  • 1.1.2 Policy Implementation:
    • Automate the execution of policy enforcement tasks.
    • Implement policy enforcement result tracking.
• 1.2 Automated Compliance Checks:
  • 1.2.1 Security Baseline Checks:
    • Implement automated compliance checks for security baselines (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001).
    • Automate the execution of compliance checks.
  • 1.2.2 Compliance Management:
    • Automate the tracking of compliance check results.
    • Implement compliance feedback collection.
• 1.3 Infrastructure Drift Monitoring:
  • 1.3.1 Policy Adherence:
    • Continuously monitor infrastructure drift and enforce policy adherence.
    • Automate the monitoring of infrastructure drift.
  • 1.3.2 Drift Reconciliation:
    • Automate the reconciliation of infrastructure drift.
    • Implement drift reconciliation tutorials.

By enforcing Policy as Code, organisations can ensure consistent security and compliance.

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