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IAM is a critical part of any enterprise security plan. It is entangled to the security and productivity of organizations. Compromised user credentials can act as an entry point into an organization’s network and its information resources. IAM systems safeguard information assets of organizations against the rising threats of cyber attacks.
IAM enables users to be more productive by securing their digital identity in a variety of environments, so the users can utilize the technology resources while working from home, the office, or on the road.
In many institutions, users tend to have more access privileges than necessary. A strong IAM system adds an important layer of protection by applying a consistent group of “user access rules and policies” across an institution.
IAM can increase business productivity. The central management capabilities reduce the intricacy and cost of safeguarding user credentials and access. At the same time,
IAM impacts everyone in an organization from employees to contractors/vendors to privileged IT users to customer base (in our case, constituents). A successful IAM program provides many benefits, including:
Organizations can carry out generalized assessments when experiencing budget or time constraints. However, generalized assessments don’t necessarily provide the detailed mappings between assets, associated threats, identified risks, impact, and mitigating controls.
A comprehensive security assessment allows an organization to:
It’s important to understand that a security risk assessment isn’t a one-time security project. Rather, it’s a continuous activity that should be conducted at least once every other year. Continuous assessment provides an organization with a current and up-to-date snapshot of threats and risks to which it is exposed.
SIEM makes your work easier by collecting log data and security incidents from various parts of the system. A log is a record left behind by each activity performed by the application or the operating system.
A blend of real-time collection and analysis of security alerts and correlation of events to deduce it to detect incidents and malicious patterns of behaviors
Some of the benefits of SIEM include the following:
The DevOps movement is driving a number of misconceptions or myths around security that I feel are worth debunking. So let’s do that here: we’ll play myth buster!
| Myths | We busted it |
| Security can’t fit into DevOps | DevOps is actually a boon for security folks, who can, with the right automation and operational tools, inject security earlier into the development process, and increase the security of the code that ultimately reaches production. |
| Configuration management tools are the DevOps cure all | Automation tools like Chef and Puppet are excellent for deploying and redeploying an application or configuration to a host. However, they are simply not capable of providing the kind of security analysis, monitoring, and assessment that a security professional can, nor are they designed for the kind of ongoing management of a system that is needed to ensure reliability over time |
| Adopting DevOps eliminates the need for security experts | Most developers are not security experts. Security experts are needed now, more than ever, to partner with the other skill areas, and ignoring this is a great way to become the next hacker conquest |
| Enterprise and DevOps are like oil and water | Enterprises can work with DevOps — just look at how the enterprise has embraced Agile methodologies. It’s the same here. DevOps is about reducing time to market, while maintaining quality, reliability and security: that’s something all businesses desire |
| If we can do DevOps, we can do ‘SecOps’ | Changing the name, and assuming security is still its own functional area but just using DevOps principles misses a core point of DevOps — cross-functional integration. Security experts should seek to partner with the rest of the organization, and do so from the beginning of the development process |
SecDevOps is the process of integrating secure development best practices and methodologies into development and deployment processes which DevOps makes possible, it’s like security at speed by implanting secure coding deep in the heart of their DevOps development and deployment processes. In a world where code changes frequently, attack surfaces and risk profiles can change just as quickly and with SecDevOps which bakes security directly into development and production workflows
SecDevOps consists of two distinct parts:
