When the Vibes Lie: Securing IaC in the Age of Prompt Generated Templates

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) gives teams speed, repeatability, and auditability, but only when it’s done securely. In this session, we’ll walk through the real advantages of IaC, then spotlight a growing anti pattern: “vibe coding” cloud templates with loose, under specified prompts and trusting whatever the AI hands back.

We’ll demonstrate by generating an IaC template intentionally, running it through a third-party scanning tool to surface misconfigurations and policy violations, and then iteratively hardening both the prompt and the code.

Along the way, we’ll quantify the blast radius of shipping an insecure “it looked fine to me” template (e.g., data exfiltration, privilege escalation, compliance, and financial issues that dwarf the cost of doing it right).

Finally, we’ll confront an uncomfortable truth: without humans who understand cloud security fundamentals, automation can accelerate us straight into trouble.

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