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The SecOps framework bridges the gap between an organization’s security and operation teams to improve infrastructure and information security. The new wave of cyberattacks in this era severely threatens organizations’ sensitive information worldwide. The growing trend of remote work has further fueled cyberattack activities significantly. It has made threat detection and prevention more critical and challenging for organizations. Therefore, it becomes mandatory for organizations to stay ahead of attackers to survive in the digital world.
This blog post will help you discover what SecOps is and how it improves the organization’s security with an agile approach.
In a SecOps framework, security and IT operations teams collaborate closely with transparent workflows. They share responsibilities involved in maintaining the security of the organization’s valuable digital assets and information. It helps evaluate cybersecurity vulnerabilities more profoundly and share insightful findings that may help improve security-related issues. The process of monitoring, detecting, and resolving network vulnerabilities is repetitive and agile. It increases the functional efficiency and productivity of SecOps teams.
Most organizations have dedicated SecOps teams that work as SecOps centers (SOC) to ensure network and information security. The SOC is the most integral part of the information security framework within an organization. The SOC often works 24/7 in different shifts to turn the process of monitoring, detecting, and countering cyber threats into more efficient, automated, and aligned with other IT departments. The SecOps teams help maintain and improve information security by
The first and most vital activity is to monitor all the cyber activities and possible points of intrusion throughout the organization. It includes monitoring the data centers, networks, user devices, and applications deployed on private, public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Evaluating the type and potential of threat actors is mandatory to implement the best cybersecurity strategies and tactics. Threat intelligence helps discover the origin, interests, tactics, and approach of hackers and threats for a more robust response.
The purpose of incident response is to lay out SOPs and plans to detect and counter a cyberattack in the future. It includes the SOPs related to post-incident activities, timely detection of intrusions, containing the intruder, recovering the network, etc.
Root cause analysis helps the security and operations teams to gather insights into what possibly caused a breach, intrusion, and unlikely events. It helps organizations limit the spread of impact and eliminate security loopholes to avoid such attempts in the future.
It helps integrate all the security systems and processes into one system for the automated and optimized management of all resources. It enables individual security processes to achieve their objective without hindering the other processes.
After the sudden hike in cyberattacks in the last decade, SecOps has become a growing need for organizations. It offers some notable advantages such as:
There are multiple challenges and roadblocks in effectively implementing the SecOps framework, such as
The following strategies can help organizations in addressing the challenges mentioned above effectively:
In the future, SecOps will embrace more AI and machine learning practices as an integral part of the framework. Most existing processes will automate, evolve, and become more responsive with intelligent and robust practices in AI. With most of the processes being automated, research and development (R&D) will be the core area of focus for security and operations teams. R&D will help security and operations teams to focus more on discovering and setting up robust threat detection and prevention techniques to stay ahead of hackers.
To learn more about how AI will impact the IT industry and what to expect in cybersecurity in the future, check insightful blogs on unite.ai.
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