Integrating Threat Detection And Threat Intelligence Systems With Devops

By Author: Kim Marmoy
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Merging your Cyberthreat Intelligence System with your DevOps platform, how cool is that!

When you are specifically aligning your IT Security Systems with your IT Operations, it represents the sub-domain of SecOps. But all these terms are radically new and perhaps confuse the general perceptions, so let's just stick to the DevOps term for now.

Whatever, you call it, if you can integrate the software used in your enterprise with your IT operations, such a move can not only improve the security posture of your enterprise, but it will also become more automated and self-sufficient while conducting the processes of constant monitoring, vulnerability scanning, threat detection, reporting, patch management and other responsive programs with real-time alerts and unmissable precision.

Core Benefits Of Enterprise Alignment Through CTI Integrated DevOps

The CTI-DevOps Integration will not only curtail some daily maintenance cost but will also save a lot more time for the system administrators. Now, despite the availability of such marvellous technological life-savers as Dev-Ops, the fast-evolving ...
... modern cyber environments are bringing more challenges for the administrators, especially through complex threat landscapes that evolve by the rate of minutes. Therefore, if the minor analyses and monitoring protocols can be substantially automated by the CTI-DevOps integration, administrators can probably focus on bigger, more complex issues and analysis that can’t do without manual handling.

How The Cyber Threat Intelligence and DevOps Integration Process Works

The first step to DevOps-CTI integration is to have a proper pipeline that will have a Continuous Integration server like Jenkins, a Configuration Management Server like Chef, among other items.
To make the Pipeline and requisite Toolchain, you would require a DevOps Engineer, who can work with your cybersecurity provider, on behalf of the enterprise, or, if you have in-house staff, you can have them collaborate with the parties.

You would require additional items like a centralised vulnerability scanner, some Software, and a portal where you can get the threat alerts.

DevOps is a radically new approach, but enterprises are levelling up to its drastic benefits, making the principles too popular to ignore.

Aligning The System

A DevOps engineer can align the entire system for your enterprise, and also educate your staff in case a need arises. Once you have all the requisites in place, the engineer would develop and program the automatic TIP threat feed to streamline the important reports and alerts from the non-essential ones. Such alerts are needed to exempt AWS threat alerts and other critical technology.

Next, comes the stage to align your TIP with your configuration management tool, and upgrade it to a non-vulnerable version of the NGINX Web Server. You may even do this through Chef.

Finally, you would need to get your logs together on a project management tool, that will track the whole thing.
So there, you have in place, the automated version of TIP and you get real time alerts that are easy to follow and act upon. With more clarity and control over your enterprise process, cybersecurity and technology alignment, you will take no time to get used to the holistic conveniences of this thing called Agile Methodology.

How Much Can This All Cost In Denmark

This is supposed to be a cost-effective idea, that can be low cost, based on what software, what IT Operations and which Cybersecurity provider you are working with. Though it is hard to estimate a cost, as the DevOps or SecOps integrations come in bundles, rationally, this is not supposed to cost more than DKK 2,000 on a standard pay scale. This can go down, this can go up.

It is recommended that you ask for costs from different service providers and compare them with the services, overall reputation and how you like the company. Remember, do not stick to a low price for budget’s sake, make a move that is worthwhile and result-driven.

Author Bio:

The Agile Methodology is indeed a cross-functional utility, much of good use for IT Organisations. CSIS Group can collaborate with your DevOps or SecOps Engineer to integrate your Threat Intelligence Platform with your IT Operations. You can automate a great portion of the threat detection, reporting and alert system this way.