Top Tools for Security
There is a growing variety of tools and methodologies for every problem:
Security tools are designed to perform various functions - from the endpoint and network protection to cloud security to identity and access control. The way threats are getting advanced, organization need to move from traditional security tools to highly advanced ones to protect the employees and the organizations.
IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY
Cybersecurity is a team sport; it is the role of everyone. DevSecOps can play a crucial role in improving productivity by building automation and security gates, which will be a ShiftLeft approach. Kiran recommends closing the security loop faster and providing early feedback to the engineering team. “Do security as a code - writing code to automate the security,” should be the mantra,” says he.
According to Sourabh, productivity increases if the process is streamlined, standardized, automated and measured (to refine further). “I feel an end-to-end process coverage with tools for incident management, problem management, change management, etc, can bring about productivity improvement. Automation by the implementation of AI & ML can be leveraged to detect, quarantine, and heal,” says he.
EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) help an organization in streamlining security operations in 3 key areas: threat and vulnerability management, incident response and security operations automation. It helps in integrating and connecting various security tools and in automatic security operations.
The Dark Web is a home for hackers and terrorists and it could pose a threat to enterprises. If you find information about employees on the Dark Web, consider yourself lucky. It is better to know about this disclosure than to be unaware. There is nothing you can do to wipe out the information from other sites. However, this is a warning to tighten the network security and enforce a password change on all system users through the access rights management system.
Says Pawan: “Compared to traditional security solutions, EDR provides enhanced visibility into your endpoints and allows for faster response time. EDR tools detect and protect your organization
from advanced forms of malware (such as polymorphic malware), APTs, phishing, etc.”
SIX SIGMA, OTHER METHODOLOGIES
IndiaFirst Life Insurance deployed a lean Six Sigma methodology to improve productivity and follows a DMAIC model (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, and Control). Anjana Rao, Chief Strategy Officer, at the company, says under each DMAIC phase, one can deploy an array of tools like define (KANO’S model, Project Charter, etc), measure (SIPOC, Gauge R & R, Sampling, etc), analyze (Ishikawa, FM, 5 Whys, array of statistical tools for hypothesis testing, Pareto’s Principle), control (Impact Matrix, Box Plots, etc), improve (Poka-Yoke for warning, shutdown & control, learn t ools, etc) and control (statistical process