Security is a critical, if somewhat overwhelming, task for any organization. As products grow and teams expand, the challenge of maintaining a security posture at scale increases as well. This is where automation comes in. The ability to automate security tasks offers obvious benefits such as increased speed, while also driving deeper shifts in a company’s culture and processes.

As a developer, you’re probably using some infrastructure cloud provider. And chances are, you automate parts of your infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC), so deployments are repeatable, consistent, easily deployable, and overall, more secure because code makes parameters more visible.