{"id":3879,"date":"2023-11-19T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propelex.com\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2023-11-18T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T07:38:49","slug":"empowering-cybersecurity-with-observability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propelex.com\/empowering-cybersecurity-with-observability\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Cybersecurity with Observability"},"content":{"rendered":"
Empowering cybersecurity with observability. Enhance threat detection and response with a proactive and data-driven security approach. Observability provides the data needed to understand how a system works, which is vital for improving it. It also allows engineers to rapidly navigate from a performance problem to its root cause, without the need for additional testing or coding.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, while respondents use multiple tools for their observability needs, they strongly prefer a unified platform. This is perhaps due to the pain caused by juggling disparate monitoring tools and siloed data.<\/p>\n
As IT infrastructure is increasingly distributed, IT professionals need a comprehensive view into IT infrastructure performance. That\u2019s why smart investment in infrastructure monitoring is more important than ever.<\/p>\n
Modern infrastructure monitoring solutions can provide complete end-to-end observability with contextual insights and precise root-cause analysis. In turn, that can help DevOps teams collaborate more effectively and deliver on business goals faster. It can also help SREs evolve ITOps into AIOps and transform IT organizations to meet future demands.<\/p>\n
To get the most out of your infrastructure monitoring solution, consider focusing on key metrics that measure performance and state. These metrics can be captured directly by your infrastructure or fed into your monitoring system via integrations, agents, and other means. Metrics can include baseline information such as CPU, memory, and disk usage or more complex data points that track trends over time. Event logs\u2014which record what happens in a system or service\u2014are another critical source of observability.<\/p>\n
You should also consider monitoring third-party services. Problems with a third-party solution could have just as big of an impact on your overall user experience (and potentially your infrastructure) as issues in your own environment. In fact, a third-party issue may trigger an alert in your own environment or even result in a false positive in your monitoring tool.<\/p>\n
Whether your infrastructure is physical or virtual, it can be challenging to collect all of the data you need for your infrastructure monitoring strategy. To streamline the process, use a unified infrastructure monitoring solution that supports all types of architectures. This type of solution can automate the discovery of workloads, containers, pods, and nodes and provides a single interface to access observability.<\/p>\n
Using observability as a tool for real-time threat monitoring and alerting helps DOE identify anomalies and respond rapidly to protect DOE networks, sensitive government and citizen data, and physical infrastructure from cyber attacks. The resulting security posture is robust and resilient to minimize the impact of attacks on critical systems, energy production, and operational continuity.<\/p>\n
The underlying cybersecurity capabilities implement measurable management of DOE asset security and support the Department\u2019s mission to ensure that only authorized users access DOE systems, information, and assets. This is aligned with the President\u2019s 2017 National Security Strategy and Congressional direction contained in the FY 2018 Enacted Budget.<\/p>\n
Achieving these cybersecurity capabilities requires a strong partnership between DOE\u2019s CESER and OCIO offices, as well as with the Department\u2019s Energy sector owners and operators. This includes fostering an environment that respects operational boundaries, promotes innovation and agility, fosters collaboration, balances equities, and recognizes national values and interests.<\/p>\n