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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

Cloud-native environments

We often hear the term cloud-native, but it has become an overloaded term. For this section, we will expand on the cloud-native construct, its ecosystem, and the policy landscape for it.

When defining cloud-native environments, we refer to concepts such as 12-factor app development, the CAP theorem, and cloud infrastructure usage. Cloud-native combines tools, technologies, and paradigms at a high level. They are generally split into containers and serverless technologies from a tech stack implementation, which we will expand in this section.

Also, it's important to highlight that these cloud-native environments are the evolution of the traditional virtualizations from on-premises data centers, fueled by the needs of organizations who want to reap digital benefits. These benefits include big data analytics with access to highly efficient datastores and warehouses, innovation that utilizes AI and ML tools, and speed-to-market and organizational agility...