Security News > 2022 > January > Why organizations should consider adopting cloud governance as code

Cloud governance, in terms of enforcing cost, compliance, and security policies tends to be a pivotal inhibitor to cloud adoption and is a top priority for organizations in the new year, a Stacklet survey reveals.

Cloud governance is a framework of policies, procedures, and tools focused on ensuring cloud deployments are operating securely and efficiently.

Issues with cloud governance Cloud governance enforcement is inhibiting the acceleration of cloud adoption and usage: 86% of respondents find it challenging to enforce cost, compliance, and security.

Multiple deployment tools and lack of visibility make cloud optimization challenging: In addition to lack of collaboration, respondents selected the varied choice of deployment tools used by development teams and lack of visibility into resources as critical challenges to controlling and optimizing spend in the cloud.

Governance as code is a new paradigm that enables organizations to use code to manage and automate various aspects of governance, including cost, operations, security, and compliance.

"This research shows organizations are lacking proper governance and collaboration across various groups from engineering to finance, making it challenging for organizations to enforce the right policies and control costs. By adopting cloud governance as code model organizations can remove the friction associated with traditional tooling and processes while innovating securely in the cloud."

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