2023 Architecting a Cloud Security Guardrails Model Solutions Forum

Security teams need to build consistent, reusable design patterns for cloud security controls that can be automated and maintained readily over time. Within cloud infrastructure, many controls can be provisioned and enabled ahead of time and operate autonomously in any deployment scenario. Commonly termed “guardrails,” these controls ensure that security capabilities are always enabled and operate within the context of deployments without any required interaction from security operations or cloud engineering teams.

While there are many cloud-native services and controls available from cloud service providers, the marketplace for cloud-centric security solutions has grown and matured significantly in the past several years, and both can play important roles in guardrail design.

During this forum, we’ll break down the most common guardrails to consider within a cloud security architecture design and discuss best practices to enable and automate these over time.