Automation

This is the blog for MindPoint Group's Information Security & Privacy (ISP) division. We hope to use this to contribute to and debate ideas among the ISP community.

05
Nov
2019

It’s past time we modernized security hardening procedures

By: Ben Strauss

Security baseline automation of STIG and CIS controls with Ansible is improving resource management and compliance With an ever-growing workload to accommodate, IT is deploying cloud services and automation to help keep pace with its line-of-business demands. A factory-like mentality towards IT infrastructure operations has allowed businesses to improve upon its SLAs while increasing the

15
May
2019

Even with automation, security baselines like STIG or CIS remain a challenge to manage. But there is hope.

By: Ben Strauss

Ever ask a sysadmin what they find most tedious about their job? If they’re being honest, keeping up with security patching and compliance causes the most headaches. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Patching continues to be a labor-intensive job with dire consequences for misconfigurations that could down a system or expose parts of the environment to