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An organization's typical network and security review consists of analyzing application transit routes, request handling, and firewall rules. They want to enable their developer teams to deploy new…

The correct answer is B. Mandate use of infrastructure as code and provide static analysis in the CI/CD pipelines to. Mandating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and adding static analysis tools (such as gcloud-based linters, Terraform validators, or tools like Checkov/tfsec) into CI/CD pipelines shifts security reviews left - catching misconfigurations automatically before they reach production…

Submitted by weili_xi· Apr 18, 2026Configuring network security

Question

An organization's typical network and security review consists of analyzing application transit routes, request handling, and firewall rules. They want to enable their developer teams to deploy new applications without the overhead of this full review. How should you advise this organization?

Options

  • AUse Forseti with Firewall filters to catch any unwanted configurations in production.
  • BMandate use of infrastructure as code and provide static analysis in the CI/CD pipelines to
  • CRoute all VPC traffic through customer-managed routers to detect malicious patterns in
  • DAll production applications will run on-premises. Allow developers free rein in GCP as their dev

How the community answered

(28 responses)
  • A
    14% (4)
  • B
    50% (14)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    29% (8)

Explanation

Mandating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and adding static analysis tools (such as gcloud-based linters, Terraform validators, or tools like Checkov/tfsec) into CI/CD pipelines shifts security reviews left - catching misconfigurations automatically before they reach production. This eliminates the manual overhead of per-deployment reviews while still enforcing the organization's network and firewall policies at scale. Option A (Forseti) detects issues after deployment to production, which is too late. Option C (customer-managed routers) adds operational overhead and does not replace a security review process. Option D is not a viable enterprise strategy.

Topics

#Infrastructure as Code (IaC)#CI/CD Security#Network Security Automation#Shift-Left Security

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