Security Observability 

Security Observability is an ability to gain recognition into an organization’s security posture, including its capacity to recognize and address security risks and flaws. It entails gathering, analyzing, and visualizing security data in order to spot potential risks and take preventative action to lessen them. 

The process involves data collection from varied security tools and systems, like network logs, endpoint security solutions, and security information and event management (SIEM) platforms, further utilizing the data to observe potential threats. In other words, unlike more conventional security operations tools, it informs you of what is expected to occur rather than just what has actually occurred. Security observability is likely the most significant advancement in cloud security technology that has occurred in recent years because of this major distinction. 

Though, a majority of users are still unaware of security observability, which is something that raises concerns. According to a 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, cloud assets were included in 24% of all breaches analyzed, up from 19% in 2020. 

It is obvious that many people working in cloud security are responding slowly to new risks, and a select few need to act more quickly. This is likely to get worse as multi-cloud apps that leverage federated architectures gain popularity and cloud deployments become more varied and sophisticated. The number of attack surfaces will keep growing, and attackers' ingenuity is starting to take off. 

Organizations can embrace cloud security observability to get a more complete understanding of their cloud security position, allowing them to: 

• Detect and Respond to Threats More Quickly: Cloud security allows firms to recognize and respond to threats fasters, in a much proactive manner, all by collecting data from numerous security tools and systems. 

• Identity Vulnerabilities and Secure Gaps: With a better knowledge about the potential threats, organizations can take upbeat measures to address the issues before the bad actors could manage to exploit them. 

• Improve Incident Response: Cloud security observability can help organizations improve their incident response skills and lessen the effect of attacks by giving a more thorough view of security occurrences. 

• Ensure Compliance: Cloud security observability further aids organizations in analyzing and monitoring their cloud security deployment/posture to maintain compliance with industry rules and regulations, also supporting audits and other legal accounting.