# Developer Friendly Solid Infrastructure Security

DevFeed: [Developer Friendly Solid Infrastructure Security](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/developer-friendly-solid-infrastructure-security-29857.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/solid-infrastructure-security-without-slowing-down-developers/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Ev Kontsevoy)

Published: 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [site-reliability-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineer.md>)

Tags: [ansible](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ansible.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [downtime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/downtime.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [jenkins](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jenkins.md>), [patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patterns.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [site-reliability-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/site-reliability-engineer.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines how SaaS companies balance strong cloud infrastructure security with developer productivity. It discusses the costs of excessive security controls, including workarounds such as unauthorized bastions and additional services on bastion hosts, and argues that unnecessary complexity can increase security risk and human error.

## Source excerpt

How SaaS companies approach the trade-off between having solid cloud infrastructure security and upsetting their own engineers by overdoing it