Develop a Security Operations Strategy
Transition from a security operations center to a threat collaboration environment.
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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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Book NowModule 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.
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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.
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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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