Security Operations Strategies
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The document discusses strategies for security operations teams to effectively counter cyber threats in an evolving landscape. Key recommendations include adopting a zero trust model, improving visibility within IT infrastructure, understanding the top threats, and automating workflows to manage repetitive tasks. It emphasizes the importance of documenting processes and utilizing security orchestration and automation to enhance cyber defense efforts.
Security Operations Strategies
- 1. Security Operations Strategies for Winning the Cyberwar Security Automation and Orchestration
- 2. Introductions Advice for staying ahead of cyberthreats abounds, yet most organizations still find themselves struggling to keep pace in a consistently evolving threat landscape. Recently, the Forbes Technology Council asked a panel of 13 IT experts for their strategies and approaches to more effectively do battle in what often feels like an all-out cyberwar. Let's take a look at a few of the suggestions that security operations teams should be considering.
- 3. Thwarting cyber threats just takes a little security operations strategy
- 4. Security Operations Strategy If the saying goes "trust but verify," Zero Trust presumes that you should never trust and always verify. The Zero Trust model, created by John Kindervag, says organizations should never automatically trust anyone or anything inside or outside its perimeter without verifying before granting access. This is why you'll see a variety of technologies employed in support of a Zero Trust model - from multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity access management (IAM) to encryption, analytics and security orchestration.
- 6. Get Clear Visibility into Your IT Infrastructure Drawing up an effective defense plan is impossible if you don't know what you're supposed to be defending. No amount of technology or process can make up for a lack of visibility within your environment. However, the advantages of bringing these groups into alignment are numerous, ranging from a deeper understanding of risks and threats to improved visibility, reduced duplication of efforts, opportunities for cross-training and improved incident response.
- 7. Understand Your Top Threats Knowing is half the battle. While the threats seen by any given organization can seem random, it isn't always the case. Closer introspection can often reveal patterns related to attack vectors, compliance gaps and vulnerabilities.
- 9. Automate and Orchestrate Your Workflow We talk about it all the time - technology is in oversupply and talent is scarce, which means security teams can't keep up with growing alert volumes. Most SOCs face an overabundance of repetitive tasks in the form of weeding out false positives which can be easily handled through security automation.
- 10. Conclusion SOC managers should work with their teams to define and document processes, codifying them into playbooks. From there, security orchestration and automation can be applied to unify and automate your technologies and processes. For more on how your security operations team can get started using security automation, check out our webinar on security automation quick wins.