SecOps or Security Alone?

About this interactive

Security operations is the day-to-day work of keeping the company safe: the procedures followed, the controls run and the decisions made. A security program gives that work its structure, with policies and procedures, technology, people and a budget. SecOps, as the lesson uses the word, goes one step further. It is a way of working borrowed from DevOps: the security team and everyone else in the business work on security together. Every control security rolls out changes how other people do their jobs. Decided and rolled out by security alone, a control can get in the way, people push back or work around it, and the control becomes a barrier instead of a protection. So SecOps looks like this: asking the people affected how they work before choosing a control, trying it with them before it goes live, scheduling changes around their work, and explaining why a rule exists and what to do instead. Security alone looks like a change that simply arrives, decided without the people it affects. Every situation on these cards appears twice, once each way. Read how the change is being made, not what the change is.

What you'll learn

Tell a SecOps rollout, where the security team works with the rest of the business to put a control in place, from a rollout the security team decides and imposes on its own

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

5.1 Summarize elements of effective security governance.

ISC2 CISSP

1.3 Evaluate and apply security governance principles

Key terms

SecOps: A collaborative security methodology derived from the DevOps model that integrates security teams with the rest of the organization to implement security operations in a way that supports all business functions.
Security Operations: The day-to-day actions, procedures, and functions carried out to keep an organization safe and secure.
Security Program: An organized set of policies, processes, people, and controls managed holistically to protect an organization's cybersecurity domain.

Topics

Secops Security Operations Security Program Interactive Streak Sort

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