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Security operations activities to watch in 2019

If you’ve read my columns over the past few years, you’ve seen a security operations effort I’ve been pushing called security operations and analytics platform architecture (SOAPA). I first conceived of SOAPA as an antidote for the existing security operations practice of relying on an army of independent and disconnected security tools.This army formed over time as organizations added different security controls and threat detection systems. And while they didn’t mean to create an unmanageable monster, that’s what they got. Each system requires its own setup and ongoing management. Each one does its own alerting and reporting. Each one demands employee training, etc. Meanwhile, security operations is based on pivoting from one tool to the next and relying on humans to make sense of the whole enchilada.To read this article in full, please click here

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