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“Silent Drift: When Configurations Unsecure Themselves”

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Infrastructure as Code Doesn’t Guarantee Secure State

IaC templates may start secure but drift post-deployment. Manual changes, quick fixes, or urgent patches override baselines. Security teams rarely re-validate live environments.

Misconfigured Defaults Resurface After Updates

Vendor updates or restarts reset config files to insecure defaults. Ports reopen, logging turns off, or auth weakens silently. These regressions often go unnoticed until exploited.

Auto-Scaling Replicates Insecure Images at Scale

Cloud environments clone VMs and containers on demand. One vulnerable template creates dozens of attack surfaces instantly. Misconfigured base images scale risk automatically.

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“Temporary” Exceptions Become Permanent Risk

Teams disable firewalls, monitoring, or MFA “just for now.” These shortcuts are never reversed. Over time, the environment is held together by invisible risk debt.

Policy Conflicts Create Unintended Access Paths

IAM, firewall, and app-level controls may contradict each other. Least privilege breaks when policies overlap or inherit broadly. Attackers exploit these gaps between intent and implementation.

Lack of Continuous Monitoring Lets Drift Persist

Without automation, security reviews are infrequent and manual. Environments change faster than they’re audited. Drift becomes the default — not the anomaly.

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