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Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption

By : Ricardo Ferreira
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Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption

By: Ricardo Ferreira

Overview of this book

Policy as Code (PaC) is a powerful paradigm that enables organizations to implement, validate, and measure policies at scale. Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption is a comprehensive guide to understanding policies, their design, and implementation for cloud environments using a DevOps-based framework. You'll discover how to create the necessary automation, its integration, and which stakeholders to involve. Complete with essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will help you understand policies and how new technologies such as cloud, microservices, and serverless leverage Policy as Code. You'll work with a custom framework to implement PaC in the organization, and advance to integrating policies, guidelines, and regulations into code to enhance the security and resilience posture of the organization. You'll also examine existing tools, evaluate them, and learn a framework to implement PaC so that technical and business teams can collaborate more effectively. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design digital policies across your organizational environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Foundation
5
Section 2: Framework
10
Section 3: Tooling

Policies at speed – Policy as Code

I think everyone can agree that the pandemic of the last couple of years has strained many organizations. Still, the ones that quickly got back on track and had less disruption were the agile ones. These organizations were not afraid to challenge the status quo, and as a result adapted very quickly to external events.

This can remind us that speed matters and can represent a significant advantage to an organization.

Speed as a business enabler

For example, let's look at great leaders from the past. Shackleton, during his expedition, was able to save his crew by trading speed over comfort during his trip to the South Pole, where they got stuck. He chose to be as agile as possible in that harsh environment. He knew that speed was essential and was the best option for saving himself and his crew.

The same has already happened in companies that adopted digital transformation to become quicker and more innovative, especially during...