Cloud security breaches have dominated the news headlines over the last several years. What’s surprising is that almost every one of these breaches were due to a simple cloud setting that was misconfigured or too basic, and usually, avoidable application vulnerabilities.

Continuous Security gives the DevOps and SecOps teams a precise location to inject themselves into the development and deployment process without involving the developers. It provides an additional check they can analyze and act on to improve overall application and cloud security.

Minimizing overall exposure and preventing data loss and security intrusion on the public cloud is an ongoing process. The rate of change in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud dictated a constant feedback loop from different parts of the operational pipeline. As we outlined above, it’s also important to add checks into the CI/CD process for misconfiguration risks. This “shift left” of security checks along with good hygiene of checking for application vulnerabilities significantly reduces the risk of breaches and data loss.  This combination provides a truly comprehensive framework — continuous security — that serve as a solid foundation.