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Enterprises are increasingly going beyond lift-and-shift migrations to adopt cloud native strategies — the approach of developing, releasing and maintaining applications, all within cloud environments.https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-10-18-gartner-identifies-the-top-strategic-technology-trends-for-2022, more than 95% of new digital initiatives will be conducted on cloud native platforms by 2025. As enterprises dial up the focus on cloud native functionality, they’re moving away from manual click-Ops approaches to adopt automation that enables higher velocity and better manages increasing cloud complexity and scale.https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud shows that 81% of enterprises are already multicloud or plan to be within a year.

The velocity and scope of change of today’s cloud native architectures cause security teams to struggle.

Developers have leaned on https://thenewstack.io/infrastructure-as-code-6-best-practices-for-securing-applications/ (IaC) to build these cloud native applications on a large scale, even in complex environments.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/security-as-code-the-best-and-maybe-only-path-to-securing-cloud-applications-and-systems of SaC as the best “and maybe only” path to securing cloud native architectures more than a year ago.