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Source-agnostic risk

Risk that can be introduced through any path into the cloud – IaC, the console, the CLI, an API call, or an AI agent – not just one pipeline.

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What about resources created outside IaC, like ClickOps, the CLI, or AI agents?
This is a core gap Aryon is built to close. Aryon is source-agnostic: the same policy applies no matter how or where a resource was created.
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ClickOps

Creating or changing cloud resources by hand through a provider's web console, outside of any code-based or reviewed workflow.

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IaC scanner

A tool that checks Infrastructure-as-Code templates for policy violations before deployment, covering only the activity that flows through that specific pipeline.

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Cloud security policy engine

A system that lets a team define a security rule once and have it enforced consistently at the cloud control plane, no matter how or where a resource is created or changed.

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Deployment-stage enforcement

Validating and enforcing a change against policy before the requested resource creation or modification takes effect in the cloud environment.

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