The Next Generation Platform Won't Track Configurations. It'll Track Why They Matter.

The next generation cloud security platform won't track configurations, but rather the safety intent behind them. Current tools are limited to detecting known problems after they occur, whereas a new platform will track safety intent as a first-class, typed, composable entity across the configuration lifecycle. This requires a cross-domain specification layer where safety properties are declared once and verified everywhere. The key is to recognize that cloud configuration is expressed in first-order logic, and engineers need to be aware of this to create a more secure platform. To achieve this, a provider-agnostic evaluation engine can be used to evaluate typed JSON against provider-specific schemas.