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Streamlining the audit process is not the only benefit of compliance automation. At the same time, automation improves your compliance and security posture as well as the productivity of your compliance program.
Toward that end, the CIS Critical Security Controls team spoke with our users and volunteers as well as looked at our goals for the future of the CIS Controls. In this article, we identify the changes that we made and explain how they support an automated future for the CIS Controls.
Imagine if all you needed to do to turn a security policy into an enforced workflow was type it out as a prompt.... Modern security teams have witnessed many generations of solutions that make it easier to automate security workflows across tools, from manual scripting, to Security, Automation, Orchestration, and Response tools, to low-code/no-code platforms. Now, the next generation of security automation tooling is here and it's powered by generative AI. How Generative AI Unlocks No-Code Automation for Security.
For companies today, the need to maintain and enhance levels of audit and compliance against the backdrop of an ever-worsening cyber security threat landscape has become more pressing than ever before. Security and compliance breaches can cause operational disruption, lost revenue, customer dissatisfaction, and lead to potentially catastrophic legal or regulatory actions, according to a new white paper published by compliance automation specialist Drata.
In several high-profile incidents, application programming interfaces emerged as a primary attack vector, posing a new and significant threat to organizations' security posture, according to Cequence Security. "As attack automation becomes an increasingly prevalent threat against APIs, it's critical that organizations have the tools, knowledge and expertise to defend against them in real- time," Talwalkar added.
We're now making cloud security automation easier for you by releasing CIS hardening components in EC2 Image Builder on Amazon Web Services. Our CIS hardening components help give you more options for building a golden image, especially when you need to automate your image creation process.
Data backups get a lot of attention, but sadly, sometimes, the operational work that keeps networks secure - like device backups, upgrades, and configuration grooming - goes undone. Recent high-profile network outages have brought attention to the importance of not just automating improvements in network security and operations but recovering quickly and minimizing downtime when disaster strikes.
92% of network security and operations pros say there are more network updates needed than they can keep up with. While 61% of companies only upgrade network and security devices quarterly or less frequently, 48% of survey respondents say their company has not implemented or invested deeply in network automation, opening them up to security breaches and other serious issues.
We're now making cloud security automation easier for you by releasing CIS hardening components in EC2 Image Builder on Amazon Web Services. Our CIS hardening components help give you more options for building a golden image, especially when you need to automate your image creation process.
Up until now, much of these advancements in automation have been focused on response, with SOAR and incident response tools playing an instrumental role in tackling the most urgent phase of the SOC workflow. By breaking down the SOC workflow into phases, it is easy to see more instances where automation can improve the speed and efficacy of security teams.