Cloud engineers are looking to policy-as-code to prevent cloud misconfigurations, according to “The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report,” which surveyed 300 US cloud engineering and security professionals. It found that adoption of open source policy as code has increased in the last year, going from 31% in last year’s study to 39% saying it is a way they prevent cloud misconfigurations. While open source is popular, so too are vendor tools for compliance checking, which jumped from 41% to 47%.
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