Security Benefits of Hyperautomation in IT

In recent years, technological advancements have ushered in a new era of automation.

Hyperautomation is steadily gaining traction as budgets tighten and organizations are asked to do more with less. This blog-series post will explore the security benefits of hyperautomation in IT for managing vulnerabilities and risks related to applications & infrastructure, along with its role in orchestrating internal workflows such as incident response. By harnessing the power of hyperautomation, businesses can enhance their security posture, minimize vulnerabilities, and improve overall operational efficiency.

Gartner’s projection demonstrates that organizations are realizing the value that hyperautomation can provide to them, and they are moving quickly to implement hyperautomation to streamline their business.   -IBM

Maintaining regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of IT security.

Hyperautomation simplifies compliance efforts from the beginning phases of data collection all the way to final remediation. Event-based integrations with governance, risk, and compliance tools such as a Cyber Security Posture Management (CSPM) ensures swift automated action is taken, strengthening adherence to industry standards and regulations. By automating compliance-related tasks, organizations greatly increase their agility in reacting to new vulnerabilities while reducing human error in fixing them today and going forward; thereby reducing the risk of attacks, penalties, and legal consequences.

Operating at hyperscale requires staying on top of and preventing human-made errors, and AWS is heavily focused on automating as many tasks as possible.  This includes many of its security operations to the point where the company has removed the need for a traditional security operations center (SOC).   -CSOOnline

Enforcing resource configuration standards is a simple concept, but is easier said than done.

Hyperautomation offers a significant advantage in deploying secure resources and enforcing non-compliance. Deployment configurations are defined in-code, shareable, and launched with a few clicks, ensuring resources are always set up in a reviewed, approved, and hardened state. Account vending machine, golden resources, and ever-present guardrails are a few examples which can be built in Echelon One and 100% customized to fit your company standards. Easily connect resources to internal processes such as submitting a ticket to the appropriate department, alerting a slack channel, or suspending the resource until resolved if necessary.

A containment strategy depends on a myriad of factors and can be different from one organization to another in terms of application of containment tactics, timing, and purpose.   -Amazon Web Services

Hyperautomation plays a vital role in bolstering organizational incident response capabilities.

By automating the detection of security events such as intrusion attempts and connecting them to a hyperautomation platform, teams respond swiftly and effectively around the clock. Even if you do not have a CSPM or other tooling, E1 empowers you to easily collect the data - gaining clearer visibility, alerting, and automated resolution. Examples include disabling a suspicious access key, locking down a compromised EC2 instance’s security group, or invoking an account-wide lockdown using AWS Organizations Service Control Policy (SCPs). Having an pre-defined incident response playbook empowers security to react in an efficient and approved manner — whether invoking action manually or automatically.

Hyperautomation ... seeks to accomplish digital transformation to its full potential to increase organizational agility and eliminate silos.    -Forbes

Hyperautomation offers substantial security benefits for IT applications, infrastructure, and internal workflows by automating compliance tasks, resource deployments, and incident response. Empowered organizations greatly enhance their security posture, reduce human errors, and are able to swiftly respond to security incidents. As technology continues to evolve, hyperautomation will play an increasingly crucial role in safeguarding critical assets. Thus, embracing hyperautomation is a proactive step towards building a resilient and secure IT environment.