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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

PolicyOps – designing, embedding, and managing policies

PolicyOps is a framework that brings public policy methods into organizations' digital adoption. In the previous years, there has been a change in the way organizations release software, through new paradigms such as agile and DevOps.

PolicyOps as an augmentation to DevOps

PolicyOps introduces a change in how organizations establish their digital enablement by introducing policies and instruments to achieve digital adoption and integrating policies in a modern software development life cycle.

PolicyOps uses concepts from DevSecOps and can be integrated with it, such as using security best practices as part of coercive instruments to enforce policies. Still, it exceeds it, as it also uses other instruments, such as suasive instruments to drive adoption through behavioral changes.

PolicyOps, in simple terms, does the following:

  • Introduces public policy design into digital transformation
  • Uses...