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As anyone who has filled out an expense report can tell you, cost management is everyone's responsibility. Organizations must apply a careful balance of budget planning and expenditures that are in sync with the company's changing cash flows.
IT administrators understand the responsibilities of cost controls, but everyone has stories about surprises in operational costs they personally incurred or which came out of the blue: for example, storing an unusually large volume of logs in an AWS S3 bucket, powering up a large Azure virtual machine.
So, here are a few questions you should ask when it comes to cost management as it relates to security operations:
All cloud vendors provide cost-monitoring solutions, so it’s usually just a matter of using the resources they provide to responsibly monitor security operational expenses (examples will follow).
There are some basic steps to follow when it comes to applying effective cost monitoring to existing and new resources/services. Let’s take a look:
Cybersecurity is an ever-changing field, and keeping up with attackers requires frequent changes to an organization’s defense posture. These changes require a strong understanding of security architectures and a method for prioritizing security services based on risk and budgets available.
Here are some points for preparing for future security operations costs:
Keeping security operations costs under control is challenging, but good tools are available to help.
Planning budgets around ever-changing security tools requires good security architecture knowledge and the ability to prioritize security technology needs based on available funding.
About This Blog Series
Follow the full series here: Building Defenses with Modern Security Solutions
This series discusses a list of key cybersecurity defense topics. The full collection of posts and labs can be used as an educational tool for implementing cybersecurity defenses.
Labs
For quick walkthrough labs on the topics in this blog series, check out the story of “ZPM Incorporated” and their steps to implementing all the solutions discussed here.
Compliance
All topics mentioned in this series have been mapped to several compliance controls here.
David Broggy is Senior Solutions Architect, Implementation Services at Trustwave with over 21 years of experience. He holds multiple security certifications and won Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for Azure Security. Follow David on LinkedIn.
Trustwave is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader that reduces cyber risk and fortifies organizations against disruptive and damaging cyber threats. Our comprehensive offensive and defensive cybersecurity portfolio detects what others cannot, responds with greater speed and effectiveness, optimizes client investment, and improves security resilience. Learn more about us.
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