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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The preceding snippet ensures there are not any infringements in the data localization, as we specify the region with "aws:RequestedRegion": "eu-central-1"."

A block of code is set as follows:

policy "preventEC2unaprovedinstances" {
  source = "./mypolicyinsentinel.sentinel"
  enforcement_level = "advisory"
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

    - name: "pod_image_pull_policy"
      enabled: True
      report_only: False

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

rsff@xps:~$ ./opa
-bash: ./opa: Permission denied

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

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