Security validation is essential for ensuring cloud applications are safe and compliant, helping to prevent data breaches. Security validation as code automates the testing process by leveraging APIs, allowing security tests to be consistently maintained and executed across environments. This approach increases testing efficiency, scalability, and integration into existing workflows, improving security within the CI/CD pipeline.

1. Security Validation
Cloud applications demand security validation to guarantee that the software is safe and
compliant with security standards. It also aids in the prevention of data breaches and other threats
prevalent to the public cloud.
API driven testing to the rescue
The vast majority of modern cloud-native applications and their infrastructure are API-driven.
Because every fabric of the cloud is expressed using a consistent interface and atomicity, it is
possible to represent most current cloud security validation as code, completely driven by APIs.
This allows for more accurate and efficient testing.
By using APIs to drive the testing process, you can better mimic how the application will
actually behave when it is used in production. This can help you find and fix problems before
they cause issues for your customers.
What is Security Validation as Code?
Security Validation as Code enables validation of cloud applications and infrastructure in a more
automated and API-driven way. It uses the same techniques and tools that are used for other
types of testing, such as unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing. But all the

2. security tests would be codified and kept in code repositories. To have the Security Validation as
Code implemented for your company, you need to have a framework or a processing engine that
can validate the cloud applications against the security tests which are available in a code
repository and report back the non-compliant resources to the process.
The benefits of Security Validation as Code
Validation as code strives to minimize these barriers. With Security Validation as Code, security
experts can define security tests in codes. The codes are shared between multiple parties and
applied in various environments. your tests would have repeatability and you can get consistent
results across different environments.
With Security Validation as Code, you can marry the speed of the CI/CD process with the high-
quality bar of security. You can make sure if the pipeline is completed successfully, all the
security tests are passed and the application is ready to be launched.
Security validation as code is also more scalable than manual testing and can be easily integrated
into existing processes and tools. Your current SDLC process could have an extra step to security
validate the application and environment to make sure all the configurations and codes are under
compliance.
If you’re interested in implementing Security Validation as Code for your cloud applications,
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