Develop a Security Operations Strategy
Transition from a security operations center to a threat collaboration environment.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.A poorly structured security operations program or the lack of one can result in:
- Siloed operations that limit collaboration and internal knowledge sharing.
- A lack of situational awareness, leaving the organization vulnerable to threats.
- A waste of invested time and resources.
- False positives that misdirect management and organizational efforts.
A formalized security operations program can help:
- Reduce incident response times through the contextualization of incidents.
- Enhance communication through a central knowledge portal, defined escalation procedures, and a comprehensive ticketing function.
- Improve effectiveness of internal defense controls such as SIEM, NGFWs, IPSs, SWGs, anti-malware, and anti-spam packages.
- Increase operational efficiency in terms of asset management, human capital management, and process optimization.
- Increase organizational situational awareness through active collaboration between core threat teams, enriching internal security events with external threat intelligence and enhancing security controls.
- Reduce probability of breaches while improving internal network defenses.
- Improve standardization of prevention, detection, analysis, and response efforts.
- Enhance overall security posture.
- Identify the appropriate technological and infrastructure-based sourcing decisions.
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Module 1: Assess Operational Requirements
The Purpose
- Determine current prevention, detection, analysis, and response capabilities, operational inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Determine why you need a sound security operations program.
- Understand Info-Tech’s threat collaboration environment.
- Evaluate your current security operation’s functions and capabilities.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Understand the benefits of refining your security operations program. |
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| 1.2 | Gauge your current prevention, detection, analysis, and response capabilities. |
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Module 2: Develop Maturity Initiatives
The Purpose
- Begin developing and prioritizing gap initiatives in order to achieve the optimal state of operations.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Establish your goals, obligations, scope, and boundaries.
- Assess your current state and define a target state.
- Develop and prioritize gap initiatives.
- Define the cost, effort, alignment, and security benefits of each initiative.
- Develop a security strategy operational roadmap.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Assess your current security goals, obligations, and scope. |
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| 2.2 | Design your ideal target state. |
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| 2.3 | Prioritize gap initiatives. |
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Module 3: Define Operational Interdependencies
The Purpose
- Identify opportunities for collaboration.
- Formalize your operational process flows.
- Develop a comprehensive and actionable measurement program.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand the current security operations process flow.
- Define the security operations stakeholders and their respective deliverables.
- Formalize an internal information-sharing and collaboration plan.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify opportunities for collaboration. |
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| 3.2 | Formalize a security operations collaboration plan. |
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| 3.3 | Define operational roles and responsibilities. |
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| 3.4 | Develop a comprehensive measurement program. |
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