CYBERSECURITY
Saving SecOps teams with an observability pipeline Threats will keep coming and being on the back-foot doesn’t work. Security is a marathon; teams need to be in it for the long-haul and require the right tools and training to stay alert and continue moving forward. BY NICK HEUDECKER, SENIOR DIRECTOR AT CRIBL
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struggling with the wrong tools for the job at hand. It’s a perfect storm for threats to make their way in.
AT SOME POINT, security teams will crack. The struggle of information overload is being cited as a key stress factor for IT security teams, with 62% seeing it as an area that causes pain for their role.
The rise of dynamic observability
On top of this, the increasing complexity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, hybrid work environments, insider threats and the move to cloudnative applications deployed on containers add to the complexity SOC teams face. At the same time, with the increased layers of complexity being beyond the capabilities of traditional monitoring solutions they are
There is, however, some hope. During the last couple of years, there has been a shift in approach that looks to solve these issues: the move from static monitoring to dynamic observability. While monitoring focuses on the health of components, observability provides fine-grained visibility into why systems behave the way they do. Observability is the characteristic of software, infrastructure, and systems allowing questions about
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