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1.6Key Takeaways
- Infrastructure misconfigurations are the leading cause of cloud security incidents
- The IaC testing pyramid has four layers: syntax, static analysis, plan analysis, and integration
- Always build testing from the bottom of the pyramid up -- cheap checks first
- Static analysis runs in seconds and catches the majority of security issues
- Integration tests are expensive but irreplaceable for critical modules
- QA engineers bring a unique adversarial mindset that infrastructure testing needs