Designing and managing O&A is much like an actual symphony; each section plays its part in a dynamically changing environment, requiring core excellence in each role and coordination through a conductor.
The Conductor
Secure Big Data O&A is a symphony requiring coordination of multiple variables such as timing, weights, correlation and processes.
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Let us help you develop and mature your methodology as you work to automate other processes within your organization.
Create a POC for potential O&A elements and pilot within a development community. Involve multiple stakeholders and document the process to avoid generating false positives, extra noise, etc. that will increase your workload.
Validate your O&A methodology before
attempting to fully automate it.
Strings
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra. Learn how the different components of O&A work together to help you efficiently manage big data.
Conductor
Will a human-moderated risk rating system based upon SIEM alerts produce the same results as an O&A developed system? Yes, if you provide a baseline foundation of what works before attempting to automate.
Build your O&A upon known, tested, tried
and true process and data.
Percussion
Woodwinds
76
76
out of
100 hosts
out of
500 hosts
Vulnerabilities out of 100 hosts
For example, if you ran a vulnerability scan and discovered 76 vulnerabilities, the number 76 would mean something different if your organization had 100 hosts versus 500 hosts (think ratios and risk).
Ensure your data dashboards and metrics provide the context that will help you prioritize risk management.
Brass
When pulling data, true O&A takes into account the types of data sources and the associated weight (higher weight for higher trusted sources) in order to best automate how risk is assigned to threats.
Assign human levels of trust and confidence to automated security instrumentation data.
Woodwinds
Provide Context
to Your Data
Brass
Remember the
"O" in O&A
Percussion
Build O&A Upon Known Processes
Strings
Develop a
Methodology
for O&A
SECURE BIG DATA WITH ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION
O&A is at the heart of working with big data in an automated and efficient fashion. It involves two important elements:
Orchestration: Planning and coordination of elements, variables, and process.
Automation: Automating a process or task.
What is O&A?
O&A METHODOLOGY
The role of designing and managing O&A for an organization is much like that of an orchestra conductor, making sure each part is playing its part in an integrated musical piece that is dynamic and changing, requiring core excellence in each role but also coordination through the conductor.
Create a POC for potential O&A elements and pilot within a development community. Involve multiple stakeholders and document the process to avoid generating false positives, extra noise, etc. that will increase your workload.
Validate your O&A methodology before
attempting to fully automate it.
Designing and managing O&A is much like
an actual symphony; each section plays its
part in a dynamically changing environment, requiring core excellence in each role and coordination through a conductor.
Secure Big Data O&A is a symphony requiring coordination of multiple variables such as timing, weights, correlation and processes.
Will a human-moderated risk rating system based upon SIEM alerts produce the same results as an O&A developed system? Yes, if you provide a baseline foundation of what works before attempting to automate.
Build your O&A upon known, tested, tried
and true process and data.
76
76
out of
100 hosts
out of
500 hosts
Vulnerabilities out of 100 hosts
For example, if you ran a vulnerability scan and discovered 76 vulnerabilities, the number 76 would mean something different if your organization had 100 hosts versus 500 hosts (think ratios and risk).
Ensure your data dashboards and metrics provide the context that will help you prioritize risk management.
When pulling data, true O&A takes into account the types of data sources and the associated weight (higher weight for higher trusted sources) in order to best automate how risk is assigned to threats.
Assign human levels of trust and confidence to automated security instrumentation data.
Woodwinds
Provide Context
to Your Data
Brass
Remember the
"O" in O&A
Percussion
Build O&A Upon Known Processes
Strings
Develop a
Methodology
for O&A
SECURE BIG DATA WITH ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION
O&A is at the heart of working with big data in an automated and efficient fashion. It involves two important elements:
Orchestration: Planning and coordination of elements, variables, and process.
Automation: Automating a process or task.
What is O&A?
O&A METHODOLOGY
The role of designing and managing O&A for an organization is much like that of an orchestra conductor, making sure each part is playing its part in an integrated musical piece that is dynamic and changing, requiring core excellence in each role but also coordination through the conductor.