How can an organization ensure corporate security policies are in place?
An organization may achieve it by doing the following actions:
Developing and publishing a comprehensive security policy. The policy articulates the rules of acceptable use associated with the using software, cloud assets. It also defines what clearly violates the policy.
Develop a custom image, custom artifacts, and a deployment process that allows for orchestration within the security realm that is defined with active directory. This approach enforces the corporate boundary and sets a common set of environmental controls. These controls against the environment a developer can consider as they develop and follow a secure development lifecycle as part of their overall process. The objective also is to provide an environment that isn't overly restrictive that may hinder development, but a reasonable set of controls. The group policies at the organization unit (OU) that contains lab virtual machines could be a subset of the total group policies that are found in production. Alternatively, they can be an additional set to properly mitigate any identified risks.