E-Books →Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
What's inside
- Insights into understanding and defining policies that can be consumed across the business
- Ways to leverage a framework to embed Policy as Code into the organization
- Comprehensive guidelines on how to use Open Policy Agent and its powerful policy language, Rego
You'll get the most out of this book if
- You're a decision-maker, such as chief information officers (CIOs) or a chief information security officer (CISO) responsible for affecting change horizontally in an organization
- You're a cloud or DevOps architect, engineer, or simply involved in designing, implementing, and measuring policies in your organization
- You have a basic understanding of concepts such as cloud-native technologies, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and automation
What your journey will look like
Your journey to understanding policies, their design, and implementation for cloud environments using a DevOps-based framework will include a variety of detailed explanations and examples. As you progress, you'll discover how to create the necessary automation, its integration, and which stakeholders to involve.
After learning how to work with a custom framework to implement PaC in the organization, you'll move on to integrating policies, guidelines, and regulations into code to enhance the security and resilience posture of the organization. You'll also examine existing tools, evaluate them, and learn a framework to implement PaC.
Some of the things you'll learn from this book
- Key policies, guidelines, regulations and how they fit together in an organization
- Policy-related current challenges brought by digital transformation regarding policies
- Open Policy Engine (OPA) and other policy engines for different environments
- The latest developments in PaC through a review of the literature, toolset, and usage
- How the PaC framework can develop trust at scale, leveraging patterns and best practices
- Tool evaluation and selection using real-world examples
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Policy Design Theory
- Operationalizing Policy for Highly Regulated Industries
- Policy as Code as a Business Enabler
- Framework for Digital Policies
- Policy for Cloud-Native Environments
- Policy Design for Hybrid Environments
- Building a Culture of PolicyOps
- Policy Engines
- A Primer on Open Policy Agent
- Policy as Code Tool Evaluation
- Cloud Providers Policy Constructs
- Integration with Existing Enterprise Workflows
- Real-World Scenarios and Architecture