Abstract

This study examines the growing use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within DevSecOps frameworks, emphasizing its potential vulnerabilities and the strategies for mitigating these risks. As organizations increasingly adopt IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, and AWS to automate infrastructure deployment, misconfigurations and insecure code can lead to significant security threats. This article explores best practices and methodologies for embedding security policies directly into IaC templates and using automated security tools to validate configurations before deployment. Through the analysis, this study highlights how DevSecOps practices can address these vulnerabilities, ensuring secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure deployments in cloud environments.