While some companies have already taken strong initiative to address gaps in their application security and software supply chain, the vast majority of them are still waking up to the increasing sophistication of cyber threats. Even for those companies that are ahead in the ‘security game’, merely ensuring security is one thing, but enforcing and automating security policies is a completely different ballgame.
Why automate security policies?
Automating security policies is crucial to enhance the cybersecurity posture and streamline the overall security management processes. Automation via policies not only reduces the risk of human error, but also helps respond to issues in real-time.
Especially in large enterprises, where continuous monitoring is common practice, policies help identify deviations from established practices, and provide an activity trail to generate audit reports making it easier to demonstrate compliance.
In short, automating security policies not only improves security posture, but also makes security management more efficient, adaptable, and cost-effective. It allows organizations, respond to threats and monitor changes in the threat landscape with greater agility and precision.
Enterprise Challenges around Policy Enforcement
While every enterprise has its own security objective and approach towards achieving it, there are several challenges that are associated with the structure and related complexity of the enterprise.
Distributed teams, Tools sprawl, Dynamic Policy
While most of the processes and policies are designed for central visibility and execution, often enterprises end up having specific teams that follow their own process and preferred tooling. In such a scenario, how can you ensure that a policy that is meant to be global applies to all teams? And in case there are different thresholds for different teams, then how would you parameterize those thresholds?
Rules Genie helps you quickly set up and configure a data-driven policy, that takes data from your CI/CD pipeline or DevOps/ DevSecOps tools, feeds that data into the policy, and then the enforcement layer orchestrates and enforces that policy with the help of a ‘Check Policy’ gate.
This approach can help you enforce the same policy for different teams having similar or dissimilar thresholds, with different workflows involving various other tools.
Reuse a Templatized Policy with Policy As Code (PaC)
Rules Genie also offers you the ability to reuse or repurpose an existing policy. You can eliminate the need to manually write policies from scratch by leveraging such templates and defining them via Policy-as-Code.
Central Visibility and Audits
The Rules Genie lays the foundation for defining policies centrally, along with the flexibility of executing them in distributed environments. This also provisions policy and compliance audits centrally instead of doing things manually with logs from the distributed teams.
Update Policies with Change in Business Requirements
Defining and managing policies from a central location can help you keep up with the pace of business operations. It’s absolutely essential that you don’t miss policy updates of a specific team for which the policies are being enforced.
Rego for automating security policies
Rego is a programming language specifically designed for Policy-as-Code (PaC) and policy enforcement. It is a purpose-built declarative policy language that supports Open Policy Agent (OPA).
And in order to help our customers automate security policies easily and efficiently, we are introducing this new feature to our existing offerings for Secure Software Delivery. This new feature called ‘Rules Genie’ is an AI-powered virtual assistant for security policy creation.
Rules Genie: Revolutionizing Security Policy Automation
OpsMx Rules Genie, powered by cutting-edge generative AI technology, can help you automate security policy creation. It leverages Rego, a powerful Policy language used in various domains, including security policy enforcement and authorization, in order to automate the creation of Rego scripts for your specific security policies.
Working of Rules Genie
This is how OpsMx’s Rules Genie works:
1. Policy Specification: Begin by defining your security policies and requirements in plain language. Describe the rules and constraints you want to enforce within your software environment.
2. Example Input: While the generated scripts are highly accurate, you can customize them to meet your precise needs by providing a sample input.
3. AI-Powered Script Generation: Rules Genie takes your policy specifications and transforms them into Rego scripts. This process is entirely automated and lightning-fast, saving your development team valuable time.
4. Seamless Integration: You can download the generated Rego script and incorporate the same into your software infrastructure, leveraging OPA to enforce policies consistently across your applications and services.
Benefits of Rules Genie in Secure Software Delivery
1. Efficiency: Say goodbye to manual script writing, reducing the risk of human error and accelerating the setup of policy enforcement.
2. Accuracy: OpenAI’s Generative AI ensures that the generated Rego scripts closely align with your policy specifications, minimizing ambiguity and misinterpretation.
3. Consistency: Rules Genie promotes consistent policy enforcement across your software stack, enhancing security posture and compliance.
4. Scalability: Easily scale your security policies as your software evolves, with the ability to generate and adapt Rego scripts quickly.
5. Expertise Amplification: Even developers with limited Rego scripting experience can confidently create robust security policies using Rules Genie.
Empowering Secure Software Delivery
With OpsMx Deploy Shield’s Rules Genie, we’re empowering software development teams to prioritize security without compromising on speed or efficiency. By harnessing the power of Generative AI, you can create, customize, and enforce complex security policies with ease, ensuring that your software is safeguarded against emerging threats.
Closing notes
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, OpsMx Deploy Shied remains committed to providing innovative solutions that enable organizations to deliver software that is not only secure but also agile and scalable. Experience the power of OpsMx Deploy Shield’s Rules Genie feature today and embark on a journey towards more secure and resilient software. Book a demo now or talk to our top Secure CD Expert to get more insights.
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