DevOps culture reduces blame games in work environments, encouraging network engineers, developers and all stakeholders to work together by learning, sharing and collaborating.
NetSecOps is a term used to explain the integration of workflows for networking and security teams.
These teams used to work as a united team years ago, but as networks scaled and infrastructures became difficult to manage, enterprises needed specialized departments.
The disruption of cloud computing has compelled networking and security teams to work together again.
The loss of network visibility is a huge concern, and businesses implementing a cloud-based system require strong security to maintain their reputation in a competitive digital society.
The primary objective of NetSecOps is to enhance network security and operations for comprehensive protection and resilience.
Let's discover the steps network engineers can take to improve their NetSecOps initiatives.
It enables network engineers to identify and thwart security threats quickly and carefully.
SIEM tools collect and analyze security events in the network.
Vulnerability scanning helps identify vulnerabilities in the network devices and software that serve users daily.
Automation helps give network engineers more time to focus on other tasks.
It's crucial for NetSecOps teams to stay ahead of cybercriminals and implement threat intelligence.
Network engineers need a clear goal for using threat intelligence.
These tools integrate with SIEM, security orchestration, automation and response, network monitoring tools and endpoint security.
Automation is an ally to network engineers for faster and more precise responses to security incidents.
Automated incident response can easily handle low-level traffic, but network engineers will still have tasks to do, regardless of the level of automation.
It's important for NetSecOps professionals to have a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, such as TCP/IP, routing and switching, firewalls and IPS/IDS. Security.
Companies are moving their workloads to the cloud, and NetSecOps professionals need to understand cloud security best practices.
The networking industry changes all the time with trends and disruptions, so it's important to remain a lifelong learner.
Verlaine Muhungu is a self-taught freelance network technician.
This Cyber News was published on www.techtarget.com. Publication date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:13:04 +0000