Security Automation Essentials: Streamlined Enterprise Security Management & Monitoring with SCAP

Chapter 8

Putting Security Automation to Work in the Enterprise

 

Throughout this book, we have described how security automation works and some of the values it brings to an organization. The potential uses and benefits of automation in the enterprise are significant:

When the organization defines its security requirements and baseline configuration policies in a digital, repeatable manner, those baselines and policies become better understood, more easily implemented, and more consistently measurable throughout the enterprise.

Standardizing ...